Waipoto

Waipoto is a farmstead in South Wairarapa District, Greater Wellington. Waipoto is situated nearby to the hamlet Tauwharenīkau, as well as near the town Featherston.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Featherston prisoner of war camp and Fernside Homestead.

Featherston prisoner of war camp

Historic site

Photo: RDMALB, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II at Featherston, New Zealand, notorious for a 1943 incident in which 48 Japanese and one New Zealander were killed. Featherston prisoner of war camp is situated 2 km west of Waipoto.

Fernside Homestead

Manor estate

Fernside is a five-bedroom white-weatherboard slate-roofed American Colonial Revival style house with an L-shape plan. It covers approximately 9,000 square feet or less than 1,000 square metres. Fernside Homestead is situated 2 km northwest of Waipoto.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tauwharenīkau and Featherston.

Tauwharenīkau

Hamlet

Tauwharenīkau is a rural locality and a statistical area in the South Wairarapa District and Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. The locality is on SH 2 about 5 km east of Featherston and 7 km southwest of Greytown by road, and the statistical area covers the Tauwharenīkau River valley and plain north of SH 53.

Featherston

Town

Photo: Deano87, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Featherston is a town in the South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is at the eastern foothills of Remutaka Range close to the northern shore of Lake Wairarapa, 63 km north-east of central Wellington and 37 km south-west of Masterton. Featherston is situated 5 km west of Waipoto.

Greytown

Town

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Greytown, is a rural town in the South Wairarapa District in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is 77 km by road north-east of Wellington and 24 km southwest of Masterton, travelling via State Highway 2. Greytown is situated 8 km northeast of Waipoto.

Waipoto

Type: Farmstead
Category: agriculture
Location: South Wairarapa District, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-41.11827° or 41° 7′ 6″ south

Longitude

175.3802° or 175° 22′ 49″ east

Elevation

45 metres (148 feet)

Open location code

4VCQV9JJ+M3

GeoNames ID

6226301

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