Hoon Hay

Hoon Hay is an outer suburb of , New Zealand, located at the base of the Port Hills and about 5 kilometres southwest of . The area was named by Captain Wickham Talbot Harvey, a captain of the British Royal 10th Hussars, who moved to the area in 1852 and named it after the farm in Hoon, Derbyshire where he grew up.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Centennial Park and Princess Margaret Hospital.

Recreation area
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is a public park located in the suburb of in the southwestern part of , New Zealand. It is bordered by Lyttelton Street to the east, Rose Street to the south, to the west and Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre to the north.

Hospital
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was a public hospital in , New Zealand, run by the Canterbury District Health Board. It opened in 1959 and closed in 2024.

Museum
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, the home of Dame Ngaio Marsh for most her life, is a heritage property in Valley Road in the suburb of . It serves as a museum to Dame Ngaio, one of New Zealand's most famous cultural figures and one of the original Queens of Crime from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers, and Margery Allingham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barrington Shopping Centre and Spreydon.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Suburb
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is a suburb of , New Zealand, 4 kilometres south-south-west of . The most central street through is Barrington Street.

Suburb
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is a suburb in the south of , New Zealand. It is nominally bordered by the to the south and west, Strickland and Colombo Streets to the east, and Milton Street to the north.

Hoon Hay

Latitude
-43.56448° or 43° 33′ 52″ south
Longitude
172.60879° or 172° 36′ 32″ east
Population
9,510
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
4V8JCJP5+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 291543179
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6220937
Wiki­data ID
Q5898247
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Satellite Map

Discover Hoon Hay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Turkish—“Hoon Hay” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Hoon Hay”
  • French: “Hoon Hay”
  • Persian: “هون هی”
  • Turkish: “Hoon Hay”

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