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Lyall Bay

Lyall Bay is a bay and suburb on the south side of the Rongotai isthmus in , New Zealand. The bay is a popular surf beach, featuring a breakwater at the eastern end.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Rongotai College and Lyall Bay School.

School
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is a state single-sex boys' secondary school in the southeastern suburb of , , New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has 712 students as of July 2025.

School
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Manor estate
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is a manor estate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rongotai and Melrose.

Suburb
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is a suburb of , , located southeast of the city centre. It is on the isthmus, between the Miramar Peninsula and the suburbs of and Lyall Bay.

Suburb
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is a suburb of , New Zealand. It is south of the city centre, and , and is in the Eastern Ward. Although adjacent to Lyall Bay, it does not have seafront access to the bay.

Suburb
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is a suburb of in New Zealand, 3 kilometres to the south-east of the city centre. Travellers can reach from the Wellington central business district via the Mount Victoria Tunnel and , or over , or around the coast.

Lyall Bay

Latitude
-41.32576° or 41° 19′ 33″ south
Longitude
174.79823° or 174° 47′ 54″ east
Population
2,750
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Named after
Lyall Bay
Open location code
4VCPMQFX+M7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 277690498
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6244783
Wiki­data ID
Q15243176
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Satellite Map

Discover Lyall Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Breton to Tahitian—“Lyall Bay” goes by many names.
  • Breton: “Lyall Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Lyall Bay”
  • Corsican: “Lyall Bay”
  • Danish: “Lyall Bay”
  • Dutch: “Lyall Bay”
  • French: “Lyall Bay”
  • German: “Lyall Bay”
  • Indonesian: “Lyall Bay”
  • Italian: “Lyall Bay”
  • Low German: “Lyall Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Lyall Bay”
  • Romanian: “Lyall Bay”
  • Spanish: “Lyall Bay”
  • Swedish: “Lyall Bay”
  • Tahitian: “Lyall Bay”

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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 “Lyall Bay”. Photo: Giantflightlessbirds, CC BY-SA 3.0.