Skeleton Point
Skeleton Point is a cape in Otago, South Island. Skeleton Point is situated nearby to the hamlet Papatowai, as well as near the locality Tautuku.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Wilkie.
Lake Wilkie
Lake
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
Lake Wilkie is a small, scenic lake near Tautuku Bay in the Catlins, south of Dunedin, New Zealand. It formed after the last ice age and has gradually shrunk to its current size of 1.7 hectares.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Papatowai and Maclennan.
Papatowai
Hamlet
Papatowai is a small settlement in the Catlins ward of the Clutha District of the southeastern South Island of New Zealand. The settlement is situated half-way between the cities of Dunedin and Invercargill, on the Pacific coast close to the mouth of the Tahakopa River.
Maclennan
Hamlet
Maclennan is a small settlement in The Catlins, an area of the southern South Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres southwest of Owaka. From 1915 until its closure on 27 February 1971, the Catlins River Branch railway passed through the village, and the station building and goods shed still stand today.
Caberfeidh
Locality
The small settlement of Caberfeidh is located in The Catlins, in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island. The site of a former railway station on the Catlins Branch Line, it is sited close to a tributary of the Maclennan River, 5 kilometres north of the coast at Tahakopa Bay and 12 kilometres southwest of Owaka.
Skeleton Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: point in New Zealand
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-46.58058° or 46° 34′ 50″ southLongitude
169.46785° or 169° 28′ 4″ eastElevation
99 metres (325 feet)Open location code
4V5FCF99+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 11661743227OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6208803Wikidata ID
Q125703546
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In Other Languages
“Skeleton Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Skeleton Point (punta sa Nuzeland)”
- Cebuano: “Skeleton Point”
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Localities in the Area
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