South Island
West Coast
Buller District

Westport Airport

Westport Airport is an airport in Kawatiri, , . Originair has the only scheduled services into Westport, flying to Wellington using eighteen-seat BAE Jetstream 31.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in New Zealand
  • Also known as: “NZWS”, “Westport Airport, New Zealand”, and “WSZ”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library and NBS Theatre.

Library
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
The , also known as the Westport Library and the Buller District Library, is a district library located in in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand.

Theater building
Photo: NZ Owen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a theater building.

Church
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
St Canice's Church in , New Zealand, is a Catholic parish church, designed by John Scott. Consecrated in 1976, it is the second church on the site, replacing the earlier St Canice's designed by Francis Petre and completed in 1888.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carters Beach and Westport.

Village
is a suburb of Westport on the West Coast of South Island. Located 6 kilometres west of on State Highway 67A, it offers a pristine sheltered sandy beach on the West Coast suitable for swimming.

Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.
is the main town of the Buller District, in the northern part of the of the of . has spectacular beaches at its back door, and the mighty Buller River, the largest river by volume in NZ, runs right beside the town.

Locality
is a lightly populated locality in the West Coast region of New Zealand's . It is situated in a rural setting on the eastern outskirts of in the .

Westport Airport

Latitude
-41.7376° or 41° 44′ 15″ south
Longitude
171.57918° or 171° 34′ 45″ east
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
WSZ
ICAO airport code
NZWS
Open location code
4VCH7H6H+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 176114640
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
6457350
Wiki­data ID
Q2791588
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tajik—“Westport Airport” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Westport Airport (tugpahanan sa New Zealand)”
  • Cebuano: “Westport Airport”
  • French: “Aéroport de Westport”
  • Indonesian: “NZWS”
  • Indonesian: “WSZ”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Westport”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه وستپورت”
  • Polish: “Westport Airport”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Westport (Noua Zeelandă)”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Westport”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи встпурт (нейӯзеланд)”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи встпурт”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Cape Foulwind and Caledonian Terrace.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Kawatiri and Westport Golf Club.

West Coast: Must-Visit Destinations

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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 “Westport Airport”. Photo: Fmarier, CC BY-SA 3.0.