Oban
Oban is the principal settlement on Stewart Island, the southern most inhabited island of the New Zealand archipelago. Oban is centred on Halfmoon Bay, and stretches over a peninsula to Paterson Inlet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 300 residents
- Description: locality in Southland District, Southland Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Half Moon Bay”, “Halfmoon Bay”, “Halfmoon Bay (Oban)”, “Halfmoon Bay / Oban”, and “Oban, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stewart Island Library and Bathing Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Watercress Beach.
Oban
- Category: locality
- Location: Southland District, Southland, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-46.89799° or 46° 53′ 53″ southLongitude
168.12838° or 168° 7′ 42″ eastPopulation
300Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)Named after
ÒbanOpen location code
4V5C442H+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 973972628OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
Discover Oban from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“Oban” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Oban”
- Cebuano: “Oban”
- Chinese: “奧本 (紐西蘭)”
- Chinese: “奧本”
- Dutch: “Oban”
- French: “Oban”
- German: “Oban”
- Hebrew: “אובן”
- Hungarian: “Oban”
- Italian: “Oban”
- Japanese: “オーバン”
- Lithuanian: “Obanas (Naujoji Zelandija)”
- Lithuanian: “Obanas”
- Macedonian: “Обан”
- Malay: “Oban, New Zealand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oban”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oban på New Zealand”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oban”
- Norwegian: “Oban”
- Polish: “Oban”
- Slovenian: “Oban”
- Spanish: “Halfmoon bay”
- Spanish: “Oban”
- Turkish: “Oban”
- Ukrainian: “Обан”
- Welsh: “Oban, Seland Newydd”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Halfmoon Bay School and Bunkhouse Theatre.
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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 “Oban”. Photo: John Hill, CC BY-SA 3.0.