Woodend Beach

Woodend Beach is a small rural community in the Waimakariri District, New Zealand. The beach is part of Pegasus Bay.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pegasus and Woodend.

Pegasus

Town

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Pegasus is a new town in the Waimakariri District of Canterbury, New Zealand. Named for the nearby Pegasus Bay, it is adjacent to the town of Woodend and is 25 km north of Christchurch. Pegasus is situated 2½ km north of Woodend Beach.

Woodend

Town

Photo: Gavin Treadgold, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Woodend is a town in the Waimakariri District, in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand. It may have been named because it was on the edge of what was then called the Maori Bush, or after an early settler, Thomas Wooding. Woodend is situated 3½ km northwest of Woodend Beach.

The Pines Beach

Village

Photo: Gavin Treadgold, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Pines Beach is a small town situated roughly 4 kilometres east of Kaiapoi in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is 1 km north of the mouth of the Waimakariri River. The Pines Beach is situated 4½ km south of Woodend Beach.

Woodend Beach

Type: Village with 290 residents
Description: human settlement in Waimakariri District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Category: locality
Location: Waimakariri District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-43.33681° or 43° 20′ 13″ south

Longitude

172.70253° or 172° 42′ 9″ east

Population

290

Elevation

13 metres (43 feet)

Open location code

4V8JMP73+72

OpenStreetMap ID

node 300539557

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

6220615

Wikidata ID

Q25479982

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Satellite Map

Discover Woodend Beach from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Dutch to Turkish—“Woodend Beach” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Woodend Beach”
French: “Woodend Beach”
Malay: “Woodend Beach, New Zealand”
Maori: “Woodend Beach”
Turkish: “Woodend Beach”

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