Goose Bay
Goose Bay is a bay in Marlborough, South Island. Goose Bay is situated nearby to the hamlet Oaro.Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tāhunatōrea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Goose Bay and Oaro.
Goose Bay
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Goose Bay is a small locality in New Zealand, located 15 kilometres southwest of Kaikōura. It is beside a bay that is also named Goose Bay. It was named in the mid-nineteenth century, either after geese that got away from a nearby whaling station or from a Kāinga that was ruined by Te Rauparaha.
Oaro
Hamlet
Oaro is a settlement close to the Pacific Ocean Coast of north Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand. Oaro is within Kaikōura District on State Highway 1 and on the South Island Main Trunk railway, 20 kilometres south of Kaikōura.
Goose Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in New Zealand
- Category: body of water
- Location: Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.48005° or 42° 28′ 48″ southLongitude
173.53159° or 173° 31′ 54″ eastElevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
4V9MGG9J+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 5819416549OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Goose Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Goose Bay”
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