Point Gordon
Point Gordon is a cape in Greater Wellington, North Island. Point Gordon is situated nearby to the suburb Karaka Bays, as well as near Maupuia.Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Ballance and Mount Crawford.
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.
Mount Crawford
Peak
Mount Crawford is the highest point of the Miramar Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. Mount Crawford was first purchased by James Coutts Crawford.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karaka Bays and Maupuia.
Karaka Bays
Suburb
Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Miramar
Suburb
Miramar is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, south-east of the city centre. It is on the Miramar Peninsula, directly east of the isthmus of Rongotai, the site of Wellington International Airport.
Point Gordon
- Type: Cape
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.29576° or 41° 17′ 45″ southLongitude
174.83681° or 174° 50′ 13″ eastElevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
4VCPPR3P+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1987967909OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6244807Wikidata ID
Q125703643
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