Lawrence
Lawrence is a small town in Otago, in New Zealand's South Island. It is located on State Highway 8, the main route from Dunedin to the inland towns of Queenstown and Alexandra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 447 residents
- Description: town in Clutha District, Otago Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Lawrence, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Patrick’s Church (Catholic).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blue Spur and Gabriel’s Gully.
Blue Spur
Locality
Blue Spur is a locality in Otago, New Zealand. Blue Spur is situated 3½ km north of Lawrence.
Gabriel’s Gully
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gabriel's Gully is a locality in Otago, New Zealand, three kilometres from Lawrence township and close to the Tuapeka River. It was the site of New Zealand's first major gold rush. Gabriel’s Gully is situated 3½ km north of Lawrence.
Lawrence
- Category: locality
- Location: Clutha District, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.91293° or 45° 54′ 47″ southLongitude
169.687° or 169° 41′ 13″ eastPopulation
447Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)Open location code
4V6F3MPP+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 1709570330OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6210146Wikidata ID
Q910491
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Lawrence” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Lawrence”
- Cebuano: “Lawrence”
- Dutch: “Lawrence”
- French: “Lawrence (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Lawrence”
- German: “Lawrence (Neuseeland)”
- German: “Lawrence”
- Japanese: “ローレンス”
- Malay: “Lawrence, New Zealand”
- Malayalam: “ലോറൻസ്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lawrence”
- Norwegian: “Lawrence”
- Polish: “Lawrence (Nowa Zelandia)”
- Polish: “Lawrence”
- Turkish: “Lawrence”
- Urdu: “لارنس، نیوزی لینڈ”
- “Lawrence”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Wetherstons and Evans Flat.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tuapeka Goldfields Museum and Lawrence Visitor Centre.
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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 “Lawrence”. Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.