Point Halswell
Point Halswell is a cape in New Zealand. Point Halswell is situated nearby to the suburb Maupuia, as well as near Karaka Bays.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Massey Memorial and Kau Point Battery.
Massey Memorial
Memorial
Photo: alana’s, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Massey Memorial is the mausoleum of New Zealand Prime Minister William Massey, at Point Halswell on the Miramar Peninsula, Wellington, New Zealand.
Kau Point Battery
Fort
Kau Point Battery is a 19th-century coast defence battery constructed in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. It is located on the east side of Point Halswell in Wellington, New Zealand, approximately midway between the Massey Memorial and Fort Ballance, close to the site of the ancient Māori settlement of Kau-whakaara-waru.
Fort Ballance
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Ballance is a former coastal artillery battery on Point Gordon on Wellington's Miramar Peninsula. Built in 1885 following fears of an impending war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal fortifications constructed to protect New Zealand from naval attack.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maupuia and Karaka Bays.
Maupuia
Suburb
Maupuia on the Miramar Peninsula is an eastern suburb of Wellington to the north-west of Miramar. Developed in the 1970s, it is in the Eastern Ward. Maupuia had a usually resident population of 1,584 at the 2018 New Zealand census, similar to census figures from 2013 and 2006.
Karaka Bays
Suburb
Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Karaka Bays is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It lies on the northeast coast of the Miramar Peninsula, 6 km east-south-east of the city centre, and has an expansive view of Wellington Harbour.
Roseneath
Suburb
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Roseneath is an affluent suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, located east of Oriental Bay and north of Hataitai. The peninsula was named after Rosneath, a village on the Rosneath Peninsula on Scotland's River Clyde, and has no association with roses.
Point Halswell
- Type: Cape
- Description: point in New Zealand
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.28382° or 41° 17′ 2″ southLongitude
174.82613° or 174° 49′ 34″ eastNamed after
Edmund HalswellOpen location code
4VCPPR8G+FFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1987967554OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
“Point Halswell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Point Halswell”
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Highlights include Point Halswell Lighthouse and Mount Crawford.
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