Lawyers Head
Lawyers Head is a prominent landmark on the coast of Otago, New Zealand. Located within the city of Dunedin, this rocky headland juts into the Pacific Ocean at the eastern end of the city's main beach, Saint Kilda Beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Andersons Bay Cemetery and Tomahawk Beach.
Andersons Bay Cemetery
Cemetery
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Andersons Bay Cemetery is a major cemetery in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located 4 kilometres to the southeast of the city centre, on a rocky outcrop which forms the inland part of Lawyers Head, a promontory which juts into the Pacific Ocean.
Tomahawk Beach
Beach
Tomahawk Beach is a beach on the Pacific Ocean 7.5 kilometres southeast of the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located within the Ocean Grove Reserve between St Kilda Beach and Smaills Beach, at the point where Otago Peninsula joins the mainland of the South Island, Tomahawk Beach is a white sand beach popular with casual beach-goers and dog-walkers as well as surfers.
Chisholm Park Golf Links
Golf course
Chisholm Park is a golf club and links course in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located in the southern coastal suburb of Tahuna, close to Andersons Bay Cemetery and the coastal headland of Lawyers Head.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ocean Grove and Tainui.
Ocean Grove
Quarter
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Ocean Grove, also known as Tomahawk, is a suburb in the southeast of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. A semi-rural residential suburb on the Pacific coast at the southwestern end of the Otago Peninsula, Ocean Grove is located 6.5 kilometres southeast of Dunedin city centre.
Tainui
Suburb
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Tahuna and Tainui are two small, somewhat vaguely defined suburbs of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. They lie to the south of Andersons Bay and Musselburgh, close to Dunedin's southern coastline.
Andersons Bay
Suburb
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Andersons Bay is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located in the southeast of the city's urban area, 2.8 kilometres southeast of the city's centre.
Lawyers Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: point in New Zealand
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.91023° or 45° 54′ 37″ southLongitude
170.53514° or 170° 32′ 7″ eastOpen location code
4V6G3GQP+W3OpenStreetMap ID
node 11661743267OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6212125Wikidata ID
Q6505107
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In Other Languages
“Lawyers Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lawyers Head”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Musselburgh and Sunshine.
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