Marlborough
Marlborough is a region at the north-eastern end of the South Island of New Zealand, chock full of great food to eat and intriguing sights to see. It is renowned for its high sunshine hours, New Zealand's largest wine-growing area, whale and fur seal watching off the Kaikoura Coast and the sunken valleys of the Marlborough Sounds, where most of the world's green-lipped mussels are harvested.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Blenheim and Kaikoura.
Blenheim
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Blenheim is the most populous town in the Marlborough wine-growing region in the north-east of the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the sunniest towns in the country, with summers that are typically warm and dry, and winters that are normally cool and frosty with clear sunny days.
Kaikoura
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Kaikoura is a small coastal town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, about 180 km north of Christchurch and 130 km south of Blenheim.
Picton
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Picton is a small but important town in the beautiful Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island of New Zealand. The town is a major hub in New Zealand's transport network, linking the South Island road and rail network with ferries that cross Cook Strait to and from Wellington in the North Island.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Marlborough Sounds and Ward.
Marlborough Sounds
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The Marlborough Sounds are a series of drowned valleys at the northern end of the Marlborough region of the north-eastern tip of New Zealand's South Island.
Ward
Ward is a settlement in southern Marlborough. It is named after Sir Joseph George Ward, Premier of New Zealand in the early 20th century.
Havelock
Havelock is a town in the Marlborough district of New Zealand known as the green-shell mussel capital of the world. It is the major access point to the Pelorus Sound, one of the two major sounds of the Marlborough Sounds.
Renwick
Renwick is a small town in Marlborough. It is in the heart of the Wairau Valley wine growing district and could be an alternative to Blenheim as a base from which to explore the region.
Seddon
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Seddon is a town in Marlborough near the mouth of the Awatere River. Until the grape boom, Seddon's farmers struggled farming sheep on dry hills. Now you will struggle to find a sheep in amongst the vineyards.
Rai Valley
Rai Valley is a small rural settlement in Marlborough in NZ's South Island. If the dryness of the rest of Marlborough drives you to drink then Rai Valley will amaze with its lushness.
Pelorus Bridge
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Pelorus Bridge is a locality centred on the bridge over the Pelorus River between Havelock and Rai Valley on SH 6, the main road between Blenheim and Nelson, in New Zealand.
Marlborough
- Type: region of New Zealand with 51,600 residents
- Description: region and district in the north of New Zealand’s South Island
- Also known as: “Marlborough District”, “Marlborough region”, “Marlborough Region”, and “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Neighbors: Canterbury and Greater Wellington
- Category: district of New Zealand
- Location: South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Marlborough” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم مارلبورو”
- Aragonese: “Rechión de Marlborough”
- Basque: “Marlborough eskualdea”
- Bengali: “মার্লবোরো অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Марлборо”
- Catalan: “Marlborough”
- Cebuano: “Marlborough District”
- Cebuano: “Marlborough”
- Chinese: “Marlborough Tōa-khu”
- Chinese: “馬爾堡”
- Chinese: “马尔伯勒”
- Chinese: “马尔堡”
- Danish: “Marlborough Region”
- Dutch: “Marlborough”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Marlborough”
- Esperanto: “regiono Marlborough”
- Esperanto: “Regiono Marlborough”
- Esperanto: “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Estonian: “Marlborough‘ piirkond”
- Estonian: “Marlborough’ piirkond”
- Finnish: “Marlborough”
- French: “District de Marlborough”
- French: “Marlborough District”
- French: “Marlborough”
- French: “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Georgian: “მარლბოროს რეგიონი”
- German: “Marlborough District”
- German: “Marlborough”
- German: “NZ-MBH”
- German: “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Greek: “Mάρλμπορο”
- Gujarati: “માર્લબોરો પ્રદેશ”
- Hindi: “मार्लबरो क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “मार्लबोरो क्षेत्र”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Marlborough”
- Italian: “Marlborough”
- Italian: “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Japanese: “マールボロ”
- Japanese: “マールボロ地方”
- Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಲ್ಬರೋ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “말버러 지방”
- Korean: “말보로 지방”
- Latvian: “Mārlboro reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Mariburo regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Marlboro regionas”
- Macedonian: “Марлборо”
- Malay: “Wilayah Marlborough”
- Maori: “Tauihu”
- Maori: “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Marathi: “मार्लबोरो प्रदेश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marlborough Tōa-khu”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جيهة مارلبورو”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marlborough, New Zealand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marlborough”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Marlborough på New Zealand”
- Norwegian: “Marlborough”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Marlborough”
- Polish: “Marlborough”
- Portuguese: “Região de Marborough”
- Portuguese: “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Russian: “Мальборо”
- Russian: “Марлборо”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Marlborough Region”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marlborough”
- Sinhala: “මාල්බරෝ කලාපය”
- Sinhala: “මාල්බරෝ දිස්ත්රික්කය, නවසීලන්තය”
- Slovenian: “Marlborough”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Marlborough”
- Spanish: “Marlborough”
- Spanish: “Región de Marlborough”
- Spanish: “Te Tauihu-o-te-waka”
- Swedish: “Marlborough, Nya Zeeland”
- Swedish: “Marlborough”
- Tamil: “மார்ல்போராகஹ் பகுதி”
- Telugu: “మాల్బొరో ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “มาโบเราท์”
- Turkish: “Marlborough Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Marlborough”
- Ukrainian: “Марлборо”
- Urdu: “مارلبورو ریجن”
- Urdu: “مارلبورو علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Marlborough”
- Welsh: “Marlborough, Seland Newydd”
- Welsh: “Marlborough”
- Western Armenian: “Մարլպորոյի շրջան”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع مارلبرا”
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