Featherston
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,710 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Featherston, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Featherston Library and Featherston railway station.
Featherston railway station
Railway station
Photo: Matthew25187, CC BY 2.5.
Featherston railway station is a single-platform, urban railway station serving the town of Featherston in the Wairarapa district of New Zealand. The station lies on the Wairarapa Line, between Harrison Street West and Harrison Street East.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tauwharenīkau.
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. Tauwharenīkau is situated 4½ km east of Featherston.
Featherston
- Category: locality
- Location: South Wairarapa District, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.11681° or 41° 7′ 1″ southLongitude
175.32272° or 175° 19′ 22″ eastPopulation
2,710Elevation
135 metres (443 feet)Open location code
4VCQV8MF+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 334883618OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6226307Wikidata ID
Q836942
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Featherston” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Featherston”
- Catalan: “Featherston”
- Dutch: “Featherston”
- French: “Featherston”
- German: “Featherston”
- Japanese: “フェザーストン”
- Malay: “Featherston, New Zealand”
- Maori: “Kaiwaewae”
- Polish: “Featherston”
- Turkish: “Featherston”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Featherston”. Photo: Deano87, CC BY-SA 3.0.