Poverty Bay
Poverty Bay, officially named Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay, is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa” and “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Awapuni and Elgin.
Awapuni
Quarter
Awapuni is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Gisborne, located in the southwest of the city. It is named after the Awapuni lagoon, where the Waipaoa River runs into the ocean. Awapuni is situated 4½ km northeast of Poverty Bay.
Elgin
Suburb
Photo: Pakoire, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Elgin is a suburb of Gisborne, in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located east and north of Awapuni, south of Te Hapara and west of Gisborne Central. Elgin is situated 5 km northeast of Poverty Bay.
Manutūkē
Village
Manutūkē is a settlement in the Gisborne District of New Zealand's North Island. It is located to the west of the city of Gisborne on State Highway 2, close to the mouth of the Waipaoa River. The name was officially modified to include macrons in 2021. Manutūkē is situated 5 km northwest of Poverty Bay.
Poverty Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Walloon—“Poverty Bay” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Poverty Bay”
- Cebuano: “Poverty Bay”
- Dutch: “Poverty Bay”
- Dutch: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay”
- Dutch: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa”
- Esperanto: “Povreca golfo”
- French: “baie de la Pauvreté”
- French: “Baie de la Pauvreté”
- French: “Poverty Bay”
- French: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa”
- German: “Poverty Bay”
- German: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ פוברטי”
- Italian: “Baia della Povertà”
- Japanese: “ポヴァティ湾”
- Japanese: “ポバティ湾”
- Maori: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poverty Bay”
- Persian: “خلیج پاورتی”
- Picard: “Poverty Bay”
- Picard: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay”
- Picard: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa”
- Polish: “Poverty Bay”
- Venetian: “Baja de la Poresa”
- Vlaams: “Poverty Bay”
- Vlaams: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay”
- Vlaams: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa”
- Walloon: “Poverty Bay”
- Walloon: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa / Poverty Bay”
- Walloon: “Tūranganui-a-Kiwa”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Poverty Bay”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.