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Akaroa

Akaroa is a charming harbourside town on the eastern side of Akaroa harbour, in southern in the region of . Its early settlers were French and British.
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  • Type: Village with 780 residents
  • Description: town on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Port Louis-Philippe”
Photo: HerrSchnapps, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Akaroa Lighthouse and Gaiety Hall.

Lighthouse
Photo: Robin van Mourik, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Community center
Photo: PhilBeeNZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a community center.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Takamatua.

Hamlet
Photo: Pipjohn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly known as German Bay, is a small town situated in on in New Zealand. The main road to Akaroa passes through this locality. It is 3 kilometres north of Akaroa township.

Akaroa

Latitude
-43.8043° or 43° 48′ 16″ south
Longitude
172.9678° or 172° 58′ 4″ east
Population
780
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NZ AKA
Open location code
4V8J5XW9+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 204873740
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6222028
Wiki­data ID
Q416098
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Akaroa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Akaroa”
  • Armenian: “Ակարոա”
  • Asturian: “Akaroa”
  • Basque: “Akaroa”
  • Catalan: “Akaroa”
  • Cebuano: “Akaroa”
  • Chinese: “阿卡罗阿”
  • Dutch: “Akaroa”
  • French: “Akaroa”
  • German: “Akaroa”
  • Italian: “Akaroa”
  • Japanese: “アカロア”
  • Korean: “아카로아”
  • Lithuanian: “Akaroa”
  • Malay: “Akaroa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Akaroa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akaroa”
  • Norwegian: “Akaroa”
  • Persian: “اکاروا”
  • Polish: “Akaroa”
  • Russian: “Акароа”
  • Silesian: “Akaroa”
  • Turkish: “Akaroa”
  • Ukrainian: “Акароа”
  • Uzbek: “Akaroa”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Akaroa”. Photo: Flickr upload bot, CC BY 2.0.