Moeraki
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Moeraki Boulders and Kātiki Point Lighthouse.
Moeraki Boulders
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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. Moeraki Boulders is situated 2½ km northwest of Moeraki.
Kātiki Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Hayden5650, Public domain.
The Kātiki Point Lighthouse, also known as Moeraki Lighthouse, shone for the first time in 1878, following several accidents on the dangerous reefs around the area, to make the area safer for ships that sailed past on their way to Port Chalmers, Dunedin. Kātiki Point Lighthouse is situated 3½ km south of Moeraki.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kātiki and Hampden.
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 4 km south of Moeraki.
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 4½ km northwest of Moeraki.
Moeraki
- Type: Village with 120 residents
- Description: locality in New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.36099° or 45° 21′ 40″ southLongitude
170.85151° or 170° 51′ 5″ eastPopulation
120Elevation
70 metres (230 feet)Open location code
4V6GJVQ2+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 338530778OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2186731Wikidata ID
Q6890239
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Moeraki” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Moerai”
- Chinese: “摩拉基”
- Dutch: “Moeraki”
- Esperanto: “Moeraki”
- German: “Moeraki”
- Malay: “Moeraki”
- Maori: “Moeraki”
- Polish: “Moeraki”
- Turkish: “Moeraki”
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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 “Moeraki”. Photo: jokertrekker, CC BY 3.0.