Mahia Peninsula
Māhia Peninsula is located on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, in the Hawke's Bay region, between the towns of Wairoa and Gisborne. It includes Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1, located near Ahuriri Point at the southern tip of the Māhia Peninsula, for launching its Electron rockets.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula located on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island
- Also known as: “Mahia”, “Māhia Peninsula”, “Te Mahia”, “Te Māhia-mai-Tawhiti”, and “Tera Kako Peninsula”
Mahia Peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-39.18317° or 39° 10′ 59″ southLongitude
177.89803° or 177° 53′ 53″ eastElevation
282 metres (925 feet)Open location code
4VGVRV8X+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 10574133021OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peninsula
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Satellite Map
Discover Mahia Peninsula from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Mahia Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Península Mahia”
- Cebuano: “Mahia Peninsula”
- Chinese: “瑪希亞半島”
- Dutch: “Mahia Peninsula”
- French: “péninsule de Mahia”
- French: “Péninsule de Māhia”
- German: “Mahia Peninsula”
- German: “Māhia Peninsula”
- German: “Mahia-Halbinsel”
- Hebrew: “חצי האי מאהיה”
- Japanese: “マヒア半島”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mahia Peninsula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mahiahalvøya”
- Spanish: “Peninsula de Mahia”
- Spanish: “Península de Mahia”
- Spanish: “Peninsula Mahia”
- Spanish: “Península Mahia”
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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 “Mahia Peninsula”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.