Brightwater
Brightwater is a town 20 kilometres southwest of Nelson in Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It stands on the banks of the Wairoa River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ernest Rutherford memorial and St Paul’s Church.
Ernest Rutherford memorial
Photo: Alan Liefting, Public domain.
The Ernest Rutherford memorial includes a statue of the New Zealand scientist Ernest Rutherford, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908. It depicts Rutherford as a child, and is located near his birthplace in Brightwater, New Zealand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hope and Wakefield.
Hope
Town
Hope, previously known as Ranzau, is a small settlement in the Tasman District of New Zealand. It lies south of Nelson city, between Richmond and Wakefield. Hope is situated 4½ km northeast of Brightwater.
Wakefield
Wakefield is a small town in the Nelson Bays region of New Zealand's South Island, 25 km south-west of Nelson. This travel guide also cover the town of Brightwater, 4 km east of Wakefield.
Appleby
Quarter
Photo: Enigma28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Appleby is a locality in the Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located around the Waimea River near the Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere. Appleby is situated 7 km northeast of Brightwater.
Brightwater
- Type: Town with 2,250 residents
- Description: locality in Tasman District, New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Tasman District, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.37488° or 41° 22′ 30″ southLongitude
173.10656° or 173° 6′ 24″ eastPopulation
2,250Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)Open location code
4VCMJ4G4+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 251080856OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2192964Wikidata ID
Q915930
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Brightwater” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brightwater”
- Cebuano: “Brightwater”
- Chinese: “布賴特沃特”
- Chinese: “布赖特沃特”
- Dutch: “Brightwater”
- French: “Brightwater”
- German: “Brightwater”
- Hebrew: “ברייטווטר”
- Italian: “Brightwater”
- Japanese: “ブライトウォーター”
- Malay: “Brightwater”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Brightwater”
- Norwegian: “Brightwater”
- Polish: “Brightwater”
- Portuguese: “Brightwater”
- Scots: “Brightwater”
- Spanish: “Brightwater”
- Swedish: “Brightwater”
- Turkish: “Brightwater”
- Urdu: “برائٹ واٹر”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Brightwater Public Hall and Brightwater Recreation Reserve.
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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 “Brightwater”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.