Wellington Botanic Garden
Wellington Botanic Garden ki Paekākā is a botanical garden close to central Wellington in New Zealand. It covers 25 ha of land in a valley between Thorndon and Kelburn, with Glenmore Street as a boundary along the valley floor.- Type: Garden
- Description: public botanical garden
- Also known as: “Colonial Botanic Garden”, “Wellington Botanic Gardens”, “Wellington Botanical Garden”, and “Wellington Botanical Gardens”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Space Place at Carter Observatory and Dominion Observatory.
Space Place at Carter Observatory
Planetarium
Dominion Observatory
Observatory
The Dominion Observatory is a historic observatory in the Botanic Gardens in Wellington, New Zealand. It was the second observatory in Wellington. It was built in 1907 and originally named the Hector Observatory after James Hector until 1925.
Thomas King Observatory
Observatory
The Thomas King Observatory stands at the top of the Botanic Garden in Wellington, New Zealand, as part of the Carter Observatory. In the past it has housed research, preservation of heritage, education and promotion of astronomy to the public.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northland and Kelburn.
Northland
Suburb
Northland is a suburb in west-central Wellington, New Zealand. It borders the suburbs of Highbury, Kelburn, Thorndon, Wilton, Wadestown and Karori. Northland is populated by a mix of university students, young professionals and families.
Kelburn
Suburb
Kelburn is a central suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand, situated within 1 kilometre of the central business district. Kelburn sits on the hills just west of the capital's central business district and is bordered by the Botanic Garden and the suburbs of Thorndon and Northland to the north, the suburbs of Karori and Highbury to the south west, and Aro Valley to the south.
Wellington Central
Suburb
Wellington Botanic Garden
- Categories: botanical garden, tourism, recreation area, and tourist attraction
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.28253° or 41° 16′ 57″ south
Longitude
174.76613° or 174° 45′ 58″ east
Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)
Open location code
4VCPPQ88+XF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=garden
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Wellington Botanic Garden” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Wellington Botanic Garden”
- German: “Wellington Botanic Garden”
- Japanese: “ウェリントン・ボタニカル・ガーデン”
- Japanese: “ウェリントン・ボタニック・ガーデン”
- Japanese: “ウェリントン植物園”
- Polish: “Ogród Botaniczny Wellington”
- Russian: “Веллингтонский ботанический сад”
- Spanish: “Jardin Botanico de Wellington”
- Spanish: “Jardín Botánico de Wellington”
- Ukrainian: “Ботанічний сад Веллінгтона”
Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Discovery Garden and Succulent garden.
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