Mount Victoria
Mount Victoria is a suburb of central Wellington, New Zealand, named after the 196 metres hill Mount Victoria to the east. Mount Victoria's residential area is on its north-western slopes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jack Magnus McDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Suburb with 4,890 residents
- Description: suburb in Wellington, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Mount Victoria, Wellington”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of New Zealand and Embassy Theatre.
Museum of New Zealand
Museum
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa, it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand and the National Art Gallery.
Embassy Theatre
Movie theater
Photo: Jexiqua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Embassy Theatre is a cinema in Wellington, New Zealand, located at the Eastern end of Courtenay Place in the shadow of Mount Victoria. Originally built in 1924, the building has undergone a series of remodellings and changes in ownership.
BATS Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Kiwichris, CC BY-SA 4.0.
BATS Theatre is a theatre venue in Wellington, New Zealand. Initially founded as the Bats Theatre Company in 1976, then established in its current form in 1989. BATS Theatre has seen the development of many performing arts talents of New Zealand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oriental Bay and Te Aro.
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.
Te Aro
Suburb
Photo: Frozen-Coke-Rocks, Public domain.
Te Aro is an inner-city suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It comprises the southern part of the central business district including the majority of the city's entertainment district and covers the mostly flat area of city between The Terrace and Cambridge Terrace at the base of Mount Victoria.
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.
Mount Victoria
- Category: locality
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.29705° or 41° 17′ 49″ southLongitude
174.78741° or 174° 47′ 15″ eastPopulation
4,890Elevation
167 metres (548 feet)Open location code
4VCPPQ3P+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 267986967OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6244819Wikidata ID
Q834009
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Mount Victoria” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Victoria”
- Chinese: “維多利亞山”
- Dutch: “Mount Victoria”
- French: “Mount Victoria”
- German: “Mount Victoria”
- German: “Mt. Vic”
- Japanese: “マウント・ヴィクトリア”
- Maori: “Matairangi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Victoria i Wellington”
- Turkish: “Mount Victoria”
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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 “Mount Victoria”. Photo: Jack Magnus McDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0.