Moeraki Road
Moeraki Road is a bay in New Zealand. Moeraki Road is situated nearby to the locality Hillgrove, as well as near Kaika.Places of Interest
Highlights include Moeraki Boulders.
Moeraki Boulders
Photo: Beast from the Bush, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Moeraki and Hampden.
Moeraki
Village
Photo: jokertrekker, CC BY 3.0.
Moeraki is a small fishing village on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was once the location of a whaling station. In the 1870s, local interests believed it could become the main port for the north Otago area and a railway line, the Moeraki Branch, was built to the settlement and opened in 1877.
Hampden
Village
Hampden, a small town in North Otago, New Zealand, lies close to the North Otago coast, 35 kilometres south of Oamaru and 80 kilometres north of the city of Dunedin, to both of which it is connected by State Highway 1. Hampden is situated 3½ km northwest of Moeraki Road.
Kātiki
Locality
Kātiki is a small settlement in North Otago, New Zealand. It lies between the townships of Palmerston and Hampden on State Highway 1 at the northern end of Kātiki Beach, close to the Moeraki Peninsula. Kātiki is situated 5 km south of Moeraki Road.
Moeraki Road
- Type: Bay
- Also known as: “Moeraki Roads”
- Category: body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-45.35° or 45° 21′ southLongitude
170.85° or 170° 51′ eastOpen location code
4V6GJVX2+X2GeoNames ID
2186726
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