Selwyn
Selwyn is a village in the Selwyn District of Canterbury, New Zealand. It was laid out in the 1860s for a population of 2,000 people, but it currently has very few houses.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: locality in Selwyn District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Selwyn, New Zealand”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunsandel and Burnham Military Camp.
Dunsandel
Village
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Dunsandel is a small rural town in the Canterbury region of the South Island, New Zealand. The town is located on the Canterbury Plains just south of the Selwyn River / Waikirikiri and about 40 km south of Christchurch. Dunsandel is situated 3 km southwest of Selwyn.
Burnham Military Camp
Town
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Burnham, also known as Burnham Camp, is the largest army base in New Zealand's South Island. It is located 28 kilometres south of Christchurch on the Canterbury Plains in the Selwyn District, close to the town of Dunsandel. Burnham Military Camp is situated 7 km northeast of Selwyn.
Selwyn
- Category: locality
- Location: Selwyn District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.64952° or 43° 38′ 58″ southLongitude
172.22775° or 172° 13′ 40″ eastElevation
71 metres (233 feet)Open location code
4V8J962H+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 7745945920OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Selwyn” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Selwyn, New Zealand”
- French: “Selwyn”
- Japanese: “セルウィン”
- Turkish: “Selwyn”
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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 “Selwyn”. Photo: brian nz, CC BY-SA 2.0.