Albert Town
Albert Town is located to the east of Wānaka in Otago, New Zealand. Until recently only a farming settlement, the population boom in this area has led to much new development.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarter with 2,290 residents
- Description: locality in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Albert Town, New Zealand” and “Newcastle”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Puzzling World and Mount Aspiring College.
Puzzling World
Theme park
Photo: Yogi de, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Puzzling World is a tourist attraction near Wānaka, New Zealand. It began as a single storey maze in 1973, gradually expanding to become an award-winning complex of optical illusions and puzzling rooms and the world's first 3-D maze. Puzzling World is situated 2½ km southwest of Albert Town.
Mount Aspiring College
School
Photo: Mountaspiringcollege, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Aspiring College is a state co-educational secondary school in Wānaka, New Zealand. It was founded in 1986 after the division of Wānaka Area School into separate primary and secondary schools. Mount Aspiring College is situated 4 km west of Albert Town.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wanaka and Hāwea Flat.
Wanaka
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wanaka is a town on the shores of Lake Wanaka in the South Island of New Zealand. It is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park.
Hāwea Flat
Hamlet
Hāwea Flat is a rural settlement in the Queenstown-Lakes District of the South Island of New Zealand. Lake Hāwea is 5 km north. The area was named for Hāwea-i-te-raki, an ancestor of the Ngāti Hāwea hapū. Hāwea Flat is situated 9 km northeast of Albert Town.
Luggate
Village
Luggate is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 6 between Wānaka and Cromwell, near the junction with State Highway 8A, approximately 15 km from the Wānaka township, just past Wānaka Airport. Luggate is situated 10 km southeast of Albert Town.
Albert Town
- Category: locality
- Location: Queenstown-Lakes, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-44.68324° or 44° 40′ 60″ southLongitude
169.18726° or 169° 11′ 14″ eastPopulation
2,290Elevation
287 metres (942 feet)Open location code
4V7F858P+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 176718615OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
2194035Wikidata ID
Q955400
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Albert Town” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Albert Town (Zeelanda Berria)”
- Basque: “Albert Town”
- Dutch: “Albert Town”
- French: “Albert Town”
- German: “Albert Town”
- Japanese: “アルバート・タウン”
- Malay: “Albert Town, New Zealand”
- Maori: “Albert Town”
- Turkish: “Albert Town”
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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 “Albert Town”. Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.