Karaka Bays
Karaka Bays is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It lies on the northeast coast of the Miramar Peninsula, 6 km east-south-east of the city centre, and has an expansive view of Wellington Harbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 1,590 residents
- Description: suburb in Wellington City, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Karaka Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include David Farrington Park and Fort Ballance.
David Farrington Park
Recreation area
Photo: NZ Footballs Conscience, CC BY-SA 4.0.
David Farrington Park, previously known as Centennial Park, is a football ground in the suburb of Miramar in Wellington, New Zealand. It is used for football matches and is the home ground of both Team Wellington and Miramar Rangers AFC.
Fort Ballance
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Ballance is a former coastal artillery battery on Point Gordon on Wellington's Miramar Peninsula. Built in 1885 following fears of an impending war with Russia, Fort Ballance is one of the best preserved of a string of nineteenth century coastal fortifications constructed to protect New Zealand from naval attack.
Kau Point Battery
Fort
Kau Point Battery is a 19th-century coast defence battery constructed in Wellington, New Zealand in the 1890s. It is located on the east side of Point Halswell in Wellington, New Zealand, approximately midway between the Massey Memorial and Fort Ballance, close to the site of the ancient Māori settlement of Kau-whakaara-waru.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maupuia and Miramar.
Maupuia
Suburb
Maupuia on the Miramar Peninsula is an eastern suburb of Wellington to the north-west of Miramar. Developed in the 1970s, it is in the Eastern Ward. Maupuia had a usually resident population of 1,584 at the 2018 New Zealand census, similar to census figures from 2013 and 2006.
Miramar
Suburb
Miramar is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, south-east of the city centre. It is on the Miramar Peninsula, directly east of the isthmus of Rongotai, the site of Wellington International Airport.
Seatoun
Suburb
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
Seatoun is an eastern suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand and lies on the east coast of the Miramar Peninsula, close to the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
Karaka Bays
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Wellington, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.30406° or 41° 18′ 15″ southLongitude
174.83032° or 174° 49′ 49″ eastPopulation
1,590Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)Open location code
4VCPMRWJ+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 279654770OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
11694533Wikidata ID
Q24189624
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In Other Languages
“Karaka Bays” goes by many names.
- French: “Karaka Bays”
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