Copper Box Arena
The Copper Box Arena is a multi-sport venue built for the 2012 Summer Olympics, located in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England. Previously known as the Handball Arena, it was renamed because, aside from handball, it hosted modern pentathlon during the Olympics and was the goalball venue for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stadium
- Description: sports arena in Hackney Wick, London, England, UK
- Also known as: “Handball Arena”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include London Stadium and Hackney Wick railway station.
London Stadium
Stadium
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London Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Stratford district of London. It is located in the Lower Lea Valley, 6 miles east of central London. London Stadium is situated 2,200 feet south of Copper Box Arena.
Hackney Wick railway station
Railway station
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Hackney Wick is a station on the Mildmay line of the London Overground, located in the district of Hackney Wick, East London. Situated in London fare zone 2, the station was opened on 12 May 1980 by British Rail as part of the Crosstown Linkline service between North Woolwich and Camden Road stations. Hackney Wick railway station is situated 980 feet west of Copper Box Arena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hackney Wick and Fish Island.
Hackney Wick
Suburb
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Hackney Wick is a neighbourhood in East London, England. The area forms the south-eastern part of the district of Hackney, and also of the wider London Borough of Hackney.
Fish Island
Neighborhood
Fish Island is an area of east London, England. It is one of 58 designated conservation areas in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, with many of its buildings considered important to Britain's industrial heritage, though there are no listed buildings in the area.
East Village
Neighborhood
East Village is an area in Stratford, East London that was designed and constructed as the Olympic Village of the 2012 Summer Olympics and has been converted for use as a new residential district, complete with independent shops, bars and restaurants.
Copper Box Arena
- Categories: arena, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Hackney, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Copper Box Arena” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Copper Box”
- Arabic: “كوبر بوكس”
- Chinese: “銅箱館”
- Danish: “Copper Box”
- Dutch: “Copper Box”
- Finnish: “Copper Box”
- French: “Copper Box”
- German: “Copper Box”
- Hebrew: “קופר בוקס”
- Icelandic: “Copper Box”
- Indonesian: “Arena Copper Box”
- Indonesian: “Copper Box Arena”
- Italian: “Copper Box”
- Italian: “Handball Arena”
- Japanese: “カッパー・ボックス”
- Korean: “코퍼 복스”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Copper Box”
- Norwegian: “Copper Box”
- Persian: “کوپر باکس”
- Polish: “Copper Box”
- Romanian: “Copper Box”
- Russian: “Коппер-Бокс”
- Serbian: “Копер бокс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Copper Box”
- Spanish: “Copper Box”
- Swedish: “Copper Box”
- Turkish: “Copper Box”
- Ukrainian: “Копер Бокс”
Localities in the Area
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Nearby Places
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