Whitehead Bay

Whitehead Bay is a bay in Canterbury, South Island. Whitehead Bay is situated nearby to the hamlet Little Akaloa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Little Akaloa and Pigeon Bay.

Little Akaloa

Hamlet

Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Little Akaloa is a small settlement and bay on Banks Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand. The settlement is sited at the end of the bay, a long, finger-shaped indentation in the northeastern coast of the peninsula, some 35 kilometres southeast of Christchurch and 12 kilometres north of the near-namesake town of Akaroa.

Pigeon Bay

Hamlet

Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.

Pigeon Bay is a hamlet.

Whitehead Bay

Type: Bay
Description: bay in New Zealand
Category: body of water
Location: Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-43.62853° or 43° 37′ 43″ south

Longitude

172.94078° or 172° 56′ 27″ east

Elevation

1 metre (3 feet)

Open location code

4V8J9WCR+H8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5062025030

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

Wikidata ID

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Satellite Map

Discover Whitehead Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

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In Other Languages

“Whitehead Bay” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Whitehead Bay”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Chorlton and Puari.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Zigzag and Graeme.

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