Cook Monument

Cook Monument is a historical site in Gisborne District, East Coast. Cook Monument is situated nearby to Gisborne railway station, as well as near the quarter Victoria.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gisborne railway station and Gisborne City Vintage Railway.

Gisborne railway station

Railway station

The Gisborne railway station in Gisborne, New Zealand was the main railway station in Gisborne; and the northern terminus of the Palmerston North–Gisborne Line from 1942 when the line was opened, until 2012 when the line was mothballed beyond Napier. Gisborne railway station is situated 200 metres south of Cook Monument.

Gisborne City Vintage Railway

Museum

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The Gisborne City Vintage Railway Incorporated is a railway preservation group based in Gisborne, New Zealand. Operating on part of the northern section of the mothballed Palmerston North–Gisborne Line, the group was founded in 1985. Gisborne City Vintage Railway is situated 460 metres southeast of Cook Monument.

Waikanae Beach

Beach

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Waikanae Beach is situated 670 metres southwest of Cook Monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Victoria and Gisborne.

Victoria

Quarter

Photo: Graeme Bartlett, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Victoria is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Gisborne. It is located close to the shore of Poverty Bay, to the southeast of the city centre, between the mouth of the Awapuni Creek and Awapuni. The suburb was named after Queen Victoria.

Gisborne

Photo: Jeanaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Gisborne is a small sunny beachside city on the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It's a popular holiday spot, especially in summer, as it has a warm, dry and sunny climate, swimming and surf beaches, wineries, and a more relaxed pace of life than larger cities.

Kaiti

Suburb

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Kaiti is a suburb and historic area of Gisborne in New Zealand's Gisborne District. Situated on the eastern bank of the Tūranganui River, it contains several of the most historically significant sites in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, including Titirangi, Puhi Kai Iti / Cook Landing Site, and much of the former Kaiti Block, one of the earliest Native Land Court title investigations undertaken in the district.

Cook Monument

Type: Historical site
Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
Location: Gisborne District, East Coast, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-38.66824° or 38° 40′ 6″ south

Longitude

178.02021° or 178° 1′ 13″ east

Elevation

5 metres (16 feet)

Open location code

4VHW82JC+P3

GeoNames ID

6240091

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