Pencarrow Head
Pencarrow Head, also known as Pencarrow, is a headland in the Wellington Region of New Zealand and the name of the surrounding area, which was derived from Pencarrow, the family home of New Zealand Company director, Sir William Molesworth.- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Parangarehu” and “Te Raeakeake”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pencarrow Lighthouse and Lake Kohangapiripiri.
Pencarrow Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Aidan Wojtas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pencarrow Lighthouse, also known as Pencarrow Head Lighthouse, is a decommissioned lighthouse at Pencarrow Head in the Wellington region of the North Island of New Zealand.
Lake Kohangapiripiri
Lake
Lake Kohangapiripiri is one of the two freshwater Pencarrow lakes in Fitzroy Bay – the other being the slightly larger Lake Kohangatera. It stands to the east of Pencarrow Head, on the eastern side of New Zealand's Wellington Harbour, in East Harbour Regional Park, and is fed by Cameron Stream which rises on private land to its north.
Lake Kohangatera
Lake
Photo: Rudolph89, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Kohangatera is one of two lakes in Fitzroy Bay. It has an open water area of 17 hectares and is fed by Gollans Stream, which has its headwaters on Mount Lowry, 14 km to the north.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breaker Bay and Moa Point.
Breaker Bay
Quarter
Photo: Quilt Phase, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Breaker Bay is a suburb on the south east coast of Wellington City in New Zealand, on the Miramar Peninsula. The suburb contains a 600 m wide bay with the same name.
Moa Point
Quarter
Photo: Andrew Harvey, CC BY 3.0.
Moa Point is a small suburb in Wellington, New Zealand, situated on the south coast between Lyall Bay to the west and Tarakena Bay to the east. As of 2015 there were 21 households in the suburb.
Seatoun
Suburb
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
Seatoun is an eastern suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand and lies on the east coast of the Miramar Peninsula, close to the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
Pencarrow Head
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.35987° or 41° 21′ 36″ southLongitude
174.84798° or 174° 50′ 53″ eastNamed after
CornishOpen location code
4VCPJRRX+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 6474563927OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Urdu—“Pencarrow Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pencarrow Head (punta sa Nuzeland, lat -41,37, long 174,85)”
- Cebuano: “Pencarrow Head”
- Japanese: “ペンキャローヘッド”
- Maori: “Parangarehu”
- Maori: “Te Raeakeake”
- Urdu: “پینکیرو ہیڈ”
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