Chatham Island
Chatham Island is the largest island of the Chatham Islands group, in the south Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is said to be "halfway between the equator and the pole, and right on the International Date Line", although that point is 173 miles WSW of the island's westernmost point.
- Type: Island
- Description: island off eastern New Zealand
- Also known as: “Arekohu”, “Chatham-Insel”, “Chathamov otok”, “Chathamův ostrov”, “Ile Chatham”, “Isola di Chatham”, “ostrov Chatham”, “Whare-Kauri”, “Wharekauri”, “Остров Чатем”, “Рекоху”, and “Рекоху (остров)”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Te One and Waitangi.
Te One
Locality
Te One is a settlement on the Chatham Islands. It is located in Petre Bay, on the west coast of the main island, just north of the port settlement of Waitangi.
Waitangi
Village
Waitangi is the main port and largest settlement of the Chatham Islands. It is situated on the southern shore of Petre Bay, on the west coast of the archipelago's main island. Waitangi is situated 6 km southwest of Chatham Island.
Chatham Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Chatham Islands, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.91667° or 43° 55′ south
Longitude
-176.5° or 176° 30′ west
Population
600
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
CHT
Open location code
42853GM2+82
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Chatham Island” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Çatem”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Чатэм”
- Belarusian: “Чатэм”
- Breton: “Enez Chatham”
- Catalan: “Illa Chatham”
- Cebuano: “Chatham Island”
- Chinese: “查塔姆岛”
- Chinese: “查塔姆島”
- Czech: “Chatham”
- Czech: “Ostrov Chatham”
- Dutch: “Chatham Island”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشاثام ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشاثام”
- Esperanto: “Chatham”
- Estonian: “Chathami saar”
- French: “île Chatham”
- French: “Île Chatham”
- Galician: “Chatham”
- Georgian: “ჩატემის კუნძული”
- German: “Chatham Island”
- Greek: “Νησί Τσάταμ”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Chatham”
- Italian: “isola Chatham”
- Italian: “Isola Chatham”
- Japanese: “チャタム島”
- Korean: “채텀섬”
- Macedonian: “Четемски Остров”
- Malayalam: “ചാറ്റം ദ്വീപ്”
- Maori: “Rēkohu”
- Persian: “جزیره چاتام”
- Persian: “جزیره چتم”
- Polish: “Chatham”
- Polish: “Wyspa Chatham”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Chatham”
- Russian: “Чатем”
- Slovenian: “Chatham Island”
- Spanish: “Isla Chatham”
- Swedish: “Chatham Island, Nya Zeeland”
- Swedish: “Chatham Island”
- Turkish: “Chatham Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Чатем”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Chatham”
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