Snapper Point
Snapper Point is a cape in Greater Wellington, North Island. Snapper Point is situated nearby to the suburb Roseneath, as well as near Oriental Bay.Photo: AxonsArachnida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Victoria and Hataitai School.
Mount Victoria
Peak
Photo: Pseudopanax, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Victoria, also known as Matairangi and colloquially as Mt Vic, is a prominent 196-metre hill immediately to the east of central Wellington, New Zealand.
Carter Fountain
Fountain
Photo: DB Thats-Me, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Carter Fountain is a distinctive feature 150 metres out in Wellington Harbour from Oriental Bay. Installed in 1973, it was named in memory of the parents of its donor Hugh Carter, who drowned only days after the fountain's inauguration.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roseneath and Oriental Bay.
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.
Oriental Bay
Suburb
Photo: Brett Taylor, CC BY 2.0.
Oriental Bay is a bay and suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Known for being both a popular beach and an opulent centre of affluence in the city, it is located close to the central business district on Wellington Harbour.
Hataitai
Suburb
Photo: Turnagra, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hataitai is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, 3.5 kilometres southeast of the city centre. The suburb extends over the southeastern flank of Mount Victoria and down a valley between the Town Belt and a ridge along the shoreline of Evans Bay.
Snapper Point
- Type: Cape
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.29546° or 41° 17′ 44″ southLongitude
174.80531° or 174° 48′ 19″ eastElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
4VCPPR34+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 9307563832OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
6244814Wikidata ID
Q125703809
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