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 3 km northeast of Kātiki Beach.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kātiki and Shag Point.

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.

Shag Point

Hamlet

Shag Point / Matakaea is a headland and township in East Otago, New Zealand. Both the point and the nearby Shag River take their English name from a seabird, the pied shag. Shag Point is situated 6 km south of Kātiki Beach.

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. Moeraki is situated 6 km north of Kātiki Beach.

Kātiki Beach

Category: landform
Location: Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-45.41197° or 45° 24′ 43″ south

Longitude

170.8362° or 170° 50′ 10″ east

Elevation

11 metres (36 feet)

Open location code

4V6GHRQP+6F

OpenStreetMap ID

way 281273291

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=beach

GeoNames ID

2189012

Wikidata ID

Q32234926

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Kātiki Beach” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Katiki Beach”

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