Purau
Purau is a small town in Canterbury, New Zealand, facing Lyttelton Harbour. Purau has about 70 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: settlement on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Acheron Bay”, “Greenwood’s Bay”, “Poulao”, “Pulao”, “Purao”, “Rhodes Bay”, and “Te Puru”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Diamond Harbour Library and Diamond Harbour Memorial Cemetery.
Stoddart Cottage
House
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Stoddart Cottage is located in Diamond Harbour, New Zealand. Built in time for the wedding of his owner, Mark Stoddart, in February 1862, it was the birthplace of artist Margaret Stoddart.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diamond Harbour and Charteris Bay.
Diamond Harbour
Town
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Diamond Harbour is a small town on Banks Peninsula, in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is on the peninsula's northern coast, on the southern shores of Lyttelton Harbour, and is administratively part of the city of Christchurch.
Charteris Bay
Hamlet
Charteris Bay is a small settlement on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. The settlement is located on the south eastern side of Te Wharau / Charteris Bay, a large inlet of Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō. Charteris Bay is situated 4 km southwest of Purau.
Purau
- Categories: locality and body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Purau” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Purau Bay”
- Dutch: “Purau”
- French: “Purau (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Purau”
- Maori: “Purau”
- Polish: “Purau”
- Turkish: “Purau”
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Localities in the Area
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