Cook’s Mistake
Pegasus Bay, earlier known as Cook's Mistake, is a bay on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, to the north of Banks Peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Scoro, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Pegasus Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Brooklands Lagoon.
Brooklands Lagoon
Lake
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Brooklands Lagoon is an elongated estuary near Brooklands, Christchurch. The Styx river drains into it and it is at the mouth of the Waimakariri river.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spencerville and Brooklands.
Spencerville
Village
Photo: Gavin Treadgold, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spencerville is a semi-rural village on the east coast of Canterbury, New Zealand north of Christchurch. The town backs on to Bottle Lake Forest and includes a large park and 80 hectare camping ground.
Brooklands
Hamlet
Photo: Gavin Treadgold, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brooklands is the northernmost suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. The settlement was built on former swamp land adjacent to Brooklands Lagoon, which forms part of the Waimakariri River mouth.
Kairaki
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kairaki is a small rural community in the Waimakariri District, New Zealand. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "sky eater" for Kairaki.
Cook’s Mistake
- Category: body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.4175° or 43° 25′ 3″ southLongitude
172.72158° or 172° 43′ 18″ eastOpen location code
4V8JHPMC+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 5900505856OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2184726Wikidata ID
Q1782677
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Cook’s Mistake” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Badia Pegasus”
- Catalan: “Pegasus Bay”
- Cebuano: “Pegasus Bay (luuk sa Canterbury)”
- Cebuano: “Pegasus Bay (luuk, lat -43,33, long 173,00)”
- Cebuano: “Pegasus Bay”
- Czech: “Pegasus”
- Dutch: “Pegasus Bay”
- Finnish: “Pegasuksenlahti”
- French: “baie de Pegasus”
- French: “Baie de Pegasus”
- German: “Pegasus Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ פגסוס”
- Japanese: “ペガサス湾”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pegasus Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pegasusbukta”
- Polish: “Zatoka Pegaza”
- Venetian: “Baja de Pegasus”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Brooklands Lagoon and Stewarts Gully.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Brooklands Lagoon and Bird Hide.
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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 “Cook’s Mistake”. Photo: Scoro, CC BY-SA 2.0.