Jacobs River
Jacobs River is a locality in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated just to the north of where State Highway 6 crosses the Jacobs River. Bruce Bay is about 7 kilometres to the south-west, and Fox Glacier is almost 40 kilometres to the north-east, by road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: *christopher*, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: locality in Westland District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Jacobs River, New Zealand”
Jacobs River
- Category: locality
- Location: West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.57313° or 43° 34′ 23″ southLongitude
169.67858° or 169° 40′ 43″ eastElevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
4V8FCMGH+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2258773140OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Jacobs River” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Jacobs River”
- French: “Jacobs River”
- German: “Jacobs River”
- Malay: “Sungai Jacobs, New Zealand”
- Maori: “Jacobs River”
- Turkish: “Jacobs River”
- Urdu: “جکوبس ریوڑ، نیوزیلنڈ”
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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 “Jacobs River”. Photo: *christopher*, CC BY 2.0.