Māhanga Bay
Māhanga Bay is a bay in Greater Wellington, North Island. Māhanga Bay is situated nearby to the suburb Karaka Bays, as well as near Maupuia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Ballance and Kau Point Battery.
Fort Ballance
Castle
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Fort Ballance is a former coastal artillery battery on Point Gordon on Wellington's Miramar Peninsula. Built in 1885 following fears of an impending war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal fortifications constructed to protect New Zealand from naval attack.
Kau Point Battery
Fort
Kau Point Battery is a 19th-century coast defence battery constructed in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. It is located on the east side of Point Halswell in Wellington, New Zealand, approximately midway between the Massey Memorial and Fort Ballance, close to the site of the ancient Māori settlement of Kau-whakaara-waru.
David Farrington Park
Recreation area
Photo: NZ Footballs Conscience, CC BY-SA 4.0.
David Farrington Park, previously known as Centennial Park, is a football ground in the suburb of Miramar in Wellington, New Zealand. It is used for football matches and is the home ground of both Team Wellington and Miramar Rangers AFC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karaka Bays and Maupuia.
Karaka Bays
Suburb
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Karaka Bays is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It lies on the northeast coast of the Miramar Peninsula, 6 km east-south-east of the city centre, and has an expansive view of Wellington Harbour.
Maupuia
Suburb
Maupuia on the Miramar Peninsula is an eastern suburb of Wellington to the north-west of Miramar. Developed in the 1970s, it is in the Eastern Ward. Maupuia had a usually resident population of 1,584 at the 2018 New Zealand census, similar to census figures from 2013 and 2006.
Roseneath
Suburb
Photo: russellstreet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roseneath is an affluent suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, located east of Oriental Bay and north of Hataitai. The peninsula was named after Rosneath, a village on the Rosneath Peninsula on Scotland's River Clyde, and has no association with roses.
Māhanga Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: Bay in New Zealand
- Categories: bight and body of water
- Location: Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.29214° or 41° 17′ 32″ southLongitude
174.83541° or 174° 50′ 8″ eastElevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
4VCPPR5P+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 6778849971OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
“Māhanga Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mahanga Bay”
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