Ōwhiro Bay
Ōwhiro Bay is a southern suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, that overlooks Cook Strait. It is situated west of the larger suburb of Island Bay. The official name of the suburb was changed from Owhiro Bay to Ōwhiro Bay by the New Zealand Geographic Board on 21 June 2019.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 2,090 residents
- Description: suburb of Wellington, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Owhiro Bay”, “Owhiro Bay, New Zealand”, and “Owhiro Bay, Wellington”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oku Street Reserve and Victoria University Coastal Ecology Laboratory.
Oku Street Reserve
Park
Photo: Richlitt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Oku Street Reserve is an 8-hectare park in Wellington, New Zealand. It is located on a promontory between the suburbs of Island Bay and Ōwhiro Bay, and looks down over Taputeranga Marine Reserve and Ōwhiro Bay.
Victoria University Coastal Ecology Laboratory
University
Photo: Shimaje, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Victoria University Coastal Ecology Laboratory is a research facility of the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington that supports research in coastal ecology and marine biology.
Empire Cinema & Eatery
Movie theater
Photo: Ballofstring, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Empire Cinema & Eatery is a movie theater.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Happy Valley and Island Bay.
Happy Valley
Quarter
Happy Valley is a southern suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, although it is not an "official" suburb to the Wellington City Council. It is a main thoroughfare between Wellington city and Wellington's somewhat rugged and scenic southern coast.
Island Bay
Suburb
Photo: Ballofstring, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Island Bay is a coastal suburb of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, situated 5 km south of the city centre. Island Bay lies on the bay which shares its name, one of numerous small bays off Cook Strait and west of Lyall Bay.
Southgate
Suburb
Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Southgate is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, in the Paekawakawa/Southern Ward. The main road is Buckley Road, which runs south from the point at which Mount Albert Road changes name to Houghton Bay Road.
Ōwhiro Bay
- Category: locality
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.34076° or 41° 20′ 27″ southLongitude
174.75912° or 174° 45′ 33″ eastPopulation
2,090Elevation
229 metres (751 feet)Open location code
4VCPMQ55+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 279654920OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6244793Wikidata ID
Q7114791
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Ōwhiro Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Owhiro Bay”
- French: “Owhiro Bay”
- Maori: “Ōwhiro”
- Spanish: “Owhiro Bay (Wellington)”
- Spanish: “Owhiro Bay”
- Turkish: “Ōwhiro 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 “Ōwhiro Bay”. Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.