Tasman Point
Tasman Point is a cape in Mackenzie District, Canterbury. Tasman Point is situated nearby to the locality Birch Hill, as well as near Hooker Corner.Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Cook Airport.
Mount Cook Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Follash, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Cook Aerodrome is an airport near Mount Cook Village, New Zealand. Mount Cook Tourist Company built a small airfield at Birch Hill Flat, which opened on 3 May 1936.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aoraki / Mount Cook and Mount Cook National Park.
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Village
Photo: Pseudopanax, CC BY 3.0.
Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki / Mount Cook, in the Southern Alps.
Mount Cook National Park
Photo: Petero9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is a national park dominated by New Zealand's two highest mountains, Aoraki / Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. Several other high peaks of the South Island's Southern Alps are nearby.
Tasman Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: point in New Zealand
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Mackenzie District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.77384° or 43° 46′ 26″ southLongitude
170.15083° or 170° 9′ 3″ eastElevation
637 metres (2,090 feet)Named after
Abel TasmanOpen location code
4V8G65G2+F8OpenStreetMap ID
node 11110986845OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6208874Wikidata ID
Q125703702
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Tasman Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tasman Point (punta sa New Zealand)”
- Cebuano: “Tasman Point”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Parsons Waterfall and Heliworks Mount Cook.
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