Melville
Melville is a suburb in southern Hamilton in New Zealand. It is named after James Dougal Melville. Many of the streets in Melville are named after war heroes, including Bernard Montgomery, Odette Hallowes, David Beatty and William Slim.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 8,710 residents
- Description: suburb of Hamilton, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Melville, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Braemar Hospital and Waikato Hospital.
Braemar Hospital
Hospital
Braemar Hospital is one of the New Zealand's largest private hospitals. It is owned by the Braemar Charitable Trust located in Hamilton, New Zealand. There was a separate and unrelated organisation, Braemar Hospital in Nelson, New Zealand which provided long term psychiatric care for children.
Waikato Hospital
Hospital
Waikato Hospital is a major regional hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand. It provides specialised and emergency healthcare for the Midlands and Waikato area with patients referred there from feeder hospitals like Whakatāne, Lakes area, Tauranga, Thames, Tokoroa and Rotorua.
Lake Rotoroa
Lake
Photo: Emily Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lake Rotoroa or Hamilton Lake is a lake in Hamilton, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand. It has a surface area of about 54 hectares and an average depth of 2.4 metres. It is the home of the Hamilton Yacht Club, which holds regular sailing in the summer.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hamilton Lake and Deanwell.
Hamilton Lake
Suburb
Photo: Johnragla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hamilton Lake is a residential suburb of Hamilton, surrounding Lake Rotoroa and the Hamilton Lake Domain. Domain Drive was rebuilt in 1940 and most of the housing in the suburb near the lake had been built by 1943, but development of the area to the south west only began in the 1970s and was continuing in 1995.
Deanwell
Suburb
Deanwell is a suburb in south-western Hamilton in New Zealand. It is named after Deanwell Properties, the developers who subdivided the area. It was defined as a suburb of Hamilton in 1974.
Bader
Suburb
Bader is a suburb in southern Hamilton in New Zealand. The main street is named after WW II flying ace Douglas Bader. In 2022, Kāinga Ora announced it was building an extra 75 state houses in Bader. There were already older state houses in the area.
Melville
- Category: locality
- Location: Hamilton City, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.81038° or 37° 48′ 37″ southLongitude
175.278° or 175° 16′ 41″ eastPopulation
8,710Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)Open location code
4VJQ57QH+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1624974031OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6249339Wikidata ID
Q5066334
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Melville” goes by many names.
- French: “Melville (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Melville”
- Malay: “Melville, New Zealand”
- Turkish: “Melville”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Stephens Presbyterian Church and Tawa Park.
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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 “Melville”. Photo: tara hunt, CC BY-SA 2.0.