Shelly Bay
Shelly Bay is a bay on the Miramar Peninsula of Wellington, New Zealand. The area was settled by a collection of peoples from multiple Māori iwi in the 1820s and 1830s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include David Farrington Park and Fort Ballance.
David Farrington Park
Recreation area
Photo: NZ Footballs Conscience, CC BY-SA 4.0.
David Farrington Park, previously known as Centennial Park, is a football ground in the suburb of Miramar in Wellington, New Zealand. It is used for football matches and is the home ground of both Team Wellington and Miramar Rangers AFC.
Fort Ballance
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Ballance is a former coastal artillery battery on Point Gordon on Wellington's Miramar Peninsula. Built in 1885 following fears of an impending war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal fortifications constructed to protect New Zealand from naval attack.
Kau Point Battery
Fort
Kau Point Battery is a 19th-century coast defence battery constructed in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. It is located on the east side of Point Halswell in Wellington, New Zealand, approximately midway between the Massey Memorial and Fort Ballance, close to the site of the ancient Māori settlement of Kau-whakaara-waru.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maupuia and Karaka Bays.
Maupuia
Suburb
Maupuia on the Miramar Peninsula is an eastern suburb of Wellington to the north-west of Miramar. Developed in the 1970s, it is in the Eastern Ward. Maupuia had a usually resident population of 1,584 at the 2018 New Zealand census, similar to census figures from 2013 and 2006.
Karaka Bays
Suburb
Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karaka Bays is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It lies on the northeast coast of the Miramar Peninsula, 6 km east-south-east of the city centre, and has an expansive view of Wellington Harbour.
Roseneath
Suburb
Photo: russellstreet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roseneath is an affluent suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, located east of Oriental Bay and north of Hataitai. The peninsula was named after Rosneath, a village on the Rosneath Peninsula on Scotland's River Clyde, and has no association with roses.
Shelly Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay of Wellington, New Zealand
- Categories: suburb and body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.29529° or 41° 17′ 43″ southLongitude
174.81935° or 174° 49′ 10″ eastElevation
19 metres (62 feet)Open location code
4VCPPR39+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 2104958671OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Shelly Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shelly Bay (luuk sa New Zealand, lat -41,30, long 174,82)”
- Cebuano: “Shelly Bay”
- French: “Shelly Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ שלי”
- Turkish: “Shelly Bay”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shelly Bay”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.