West Head
West Head is a cape in Christchurch City, Canterbury. West Head is situated nearby to the locality Chorlton, as well as near the hamlet Okains Bay.Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Okains Bay and Little Akaloa.
Okains Bay
Hamlet
Photo: Egghead06, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Okains Bay is a settlement, beach and bay on the Banks Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located approximately 10 kilometres from the main town on the Banks Peninsula, Akaroa.
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.
West Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: point on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.67567° or 43° 40′ 32″ southLongitude
173.07236° or 173° 4′ 21″ eastElevation
3 metres (10 feet)Open location code
4V8M83FC+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 11110986819OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6222100Wikidata ID
Q131450472
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