Mount Victoria
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 196 metres
- Description: hill in Wellington, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Matairangi” and “Mt Vic”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of New Zealand and St Gerard’s Church and Monastery.
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.
St Gerard’s Church and Monastery
Monastery
St Gerard's Church and Monastery collectively form one of Wellington's most distinctive and iconic landmarks. Located on Mount Victoria in Wellington, both buildings are classified as Category 1 Historic Places by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oriental Bay and Mount Victoria.
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.
Mount Victoria
Suburb
Photo: Jack Magnus McDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
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.
Mount Victoria
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.29608° or 41° 17′ 46″ southLongitude
174.7943° or 174° 47′ 40″ eastElevation
196 metres (643 feet)Named after
VictoriaOpen location code
4VCPPQ3V+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 284021662OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6244820Wikidata ID
Q117769034
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Victoria from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Mount Victoria” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Victoria (bungtod sa New Zealand, Wellington)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Victoria”
- French: “Mont Victoria (Wellington)”
- French: “Mont Victoria”
- Japanese: “ビクトリア山 (ウェリントン)”
- Japanese: “ビクトリア山”
- Maori: “Matairangi”
- Turkish: “Victoria Dağı, Wellington”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hataitai and Clyde Quay Wharf.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Victoria Lookout and Noonday Gun.
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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: Pseudopanax, CC BY-SA 4.0.