Blackball
Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth. Elevation is approximately 100 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 276 residents
- Description: locality in Grey District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Blackball, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Formerly The Blackball Hilton.
Formerly The Blackball Hilton
Hostel
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
Formerly The Blackball Hilton is a hostel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ngahere and Stillwater.
Ngahere
Hamlet
Photo: DB Thats-Me, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ngahere is a locality in the Grey District of the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The 2013 New Zealand census gave the population of Ngahere and its surrounding area as 363, an increase of 5.2% or 18 people since the 2006 census. Ngahere is situated 4½ km southeast of Blackball.
Stillwater
Hamlet
Photo: Estevoaei, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stillwater is a town in the South Island of New Zealand east of Greymouth on the banks of the Grey River, at the confluence with the Arnold River, in the Grey District of the West Coast, next to Brunner. Stillwater is situated 9 km southwest of Blackball.
Nelson Creek
Hamlet
Photo: DB Thats-Me, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nelson Creek is a hamlet, which is situated 10 km southeast of Blackball.
Blackball
- Category: locality
- Location: Grey District, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.36403° or 42° 21′ 51″ southLongitude
171.41195° or 171° 24′ 43″ eastPopulation
276Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)Named after
Black Ball Shipping Line of EnglandOpen location code
4V9HJCP6+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1633672442OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Blackball” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Blackball (Zeelanda Berria)”
- Basque: “Blackball”
- Cebuano: “Blackball”
- Chinese: “布萊克鮑爾鎮”
- Dutch: “Blackball”
- French: “Blackball (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Blackball”
- German: “Blackball”
- Malay: “Blackball, New Zealand”
- Malay: “Blackball”
- Turkish: “Blackball”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Blackball Volunteer Fire Brigade and Blackball Community Church.
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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 “Blackball”. Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.