Ocean Grove
Ocean Grove, also known as Tomahawk, is a suburb in the southeast of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. A semi-rural residential suburb on the Pacific coast at the southwestern end of the Otago Peninsula, Ocean Grove is located 6.5 kilometres southeast of Dunedin city centre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter with 441 residents
- Description: suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Ocean Grove, New Zealand” and “Tomahawk”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tomahawk Lagoon and Tomahawk Beach.
Tomahawk Lagoon
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tomahawk Lagoon is a twin-lobed lagoon, located at the western end of the Otago Peninsula within the city limits of Dunedin, New Zealand. It lies close to the southeastern edge of the city's main urban area, near the suburb of Ocean Grove, which lies close to its southern shore.
Tomahawk Beach
Beach
Tomahawk Beach is a beach on the Pacific Ocean 7.5 kilometres southeast of the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located within the Ocean Grove Reserve between St Kilda Beach and Smaills Beach, at the point where Otago Peninsula joins the mainland of the South Island, Tomahawk Beach is a white sand beach popular with casual beach-goers and dog-walkers as well as surfers.
Smaills Beach
Beach
Photo: VeryRarelyStable, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smaills Beach is a beach on the Pacific Ocean 7.6 kilometres southeast of the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located within the Ocean Grove Reserve adjacent to Tomahawk Beach, at the point where Otago Peninsula joins the mainland of the South Island, Smaills Beach is a white sand beach for much of its length, but its western end is covered in volcanic boulders.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Andersons Bay and Shiel Hill.
Andersons Bay
Suburb
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Andersons Bay is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located in the southeast of the city's urban area, 2.8 kilometres southeast of the city's centre.
Shiel Hill
Suburb
Shiel Hill is a residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located at the southeastern edge of the city's urban area, 3.2 kilometres southeast of the city's centre at the western end of the Otago Peninsula, close to the isthmus joining the peninsula to the mainland.
Tainui
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tahuna and Tainui are two small, somewhat vaguely defined suburbs of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. They lie to the south of Andersons Bay and Musselburgh, close to Dunedin's southern coastline.
Ocean Grove
- Categories: suburb and locality
- Location: Dunedin City, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.90364° or 45° 54′ 13″ southLongitude
170.54721° or 170° 32′ 50″ eastPopulation
441Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)Open location code
4V6G3GWW+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 1637519686OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
2185891Wikidata ID
Q7076005
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Ocean Grove” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Ocean Grove, New Zealand”
- French: “Ocean Grove”
- Turkish: “Ocean Grove”
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Highlights include Ocean Grove Reserve and Old Tomahawk School.
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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 “Ocean Grove”. Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.