Porpoise Bay
Porpoise Bay is in the Catlins, on the southern coast of New Zealand's South Island. The bay sweeps gently from North Head, at the entrance to Waikawa Harbour, around to South Head.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waikawa.
Waikawa
Hamlet
Waikawa is a small settlement at the mouth of the Waikawa River in Southland, New Zealand, at the southwestern edge of The Catlins. The township is now a small fishing settlement, but at one time in the late 19th century was a major port, shipping timber from the sawmills of the Catlins north to help build the new town of Dunedin.
Porpoise Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay on the southern coast of New Zealand’s South Island
- Category: body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-46.64944° or 46° 38′ 58″ south
Longitude
169.11854° or 169° 7′ 7″ east
Open location code
4V5F9429+6C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Porpoise Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Porpoise Bay (luuk sa New Zealand)”
- Cebuano: “Porpoise Bay”
- German: “Porpoise Bay, Neuseeland”
- Japanese: “ポーポイズ湾 (ニュージーランド)”
- Spanish: “Bahia Porpoise”
- Spanish: “Bahía Porpoise”
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