New Zealand
North Island
Greater Wellington

Cape Palliser

Cape Palliser is a promontory on the southern coast of New Zealand's and is the southernmost point of the North Island; it is in fact considerably farther south than or in the .
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: cape in Wellington Region, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Cape Palliser / Mātakitaki-a-Kupe”, “Cape Palliser or Matakitakiakupe”, “Cape Pallisser”, “Mātakitaki-a-Kupe”, “Matakitakiakupe”, “Ngawi”, and “Polliser Cape”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palliser Lighthouse and Waipipi.

Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cape is a lighthouse at Cape Palliser in the region of the of New Zealand. It is owned and operated by Maritime New Zealand.

Peak
is a rural locality in the of New Zealand.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ngawi.

Hamlet
Photo: Melanwell, Public domain.
is a small fishing / holiday village within five kilometres of Cape Palliser, the southern-most point of New Zealand's . The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of Ngāwī as "the native tussock grass".

Cape Palliser

Latitude
-41.61272° or 41° 36′ 46″ south
Longitude
175.27342° or 175° 16′ 24″ east
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
Named after
Sir Hugh Palliser, 1st Baronet
Open location code
4VCQ97PF+W9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1987970978
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
2185026
Wiki­data ID
Q914119
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Satellite Map

Discover Cape Palliser from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Cape Palliser” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “cap Palliser”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Palliser”
  • Dutch: “Cape Palliser”
  • French: “cap Palliser”
  • French: “Cap Palliser”
  • German: “Cape Palliser”
  • German: “Matakitakiakupe”
  • Maori: “Mātakitaki-a-Kupe”
  • Maori: “Matakitakiakupe”
  • Polish: “Cape Palliser”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Palliser”
  • Vietnamese: “Mũi Palliser”

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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 “Cape Palliser”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.