Massey Memorial
The Massey Memorial is the mausoleum of New Zealand Prime Minister William Massey, at Point Halswell on the Miramar Peninsula, Wellington, New Zealand.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kau Point Battery and Fort Ballance.
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. Kau Point Battery is situated 700 metres southeast of Massey Memorial.
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. Fort Ballance is situated 1¼ km southeast of Massey Memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maupuia and Karaka Bays.
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.
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.
Roseneath
Suburb
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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.
Massey Memorial
- Type: Historical site
- Description: mausoleum of New Zealand Prime Minister William Massey
- Categories: mausoleum, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
“Massey Memorial” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Monumento conmemorativo Massey”
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