Bluff
Bluff is a small port town and the southernmost town on the South Island of New Zealand. It is 30 km south of the city of Invercargill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Karora, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 1,840 residents
- Description: town in Southland, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Bluff, New Zealand” and “Campbelltown”
- Neighbors: Invercargill
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bluff Maritime Museum and The Bluff / Motupōhue.
Bluff Maritime Museum
Museum
The Bluff Maritime Museum is located in New Zealand's southernmost port of Bluff. The museum is situated on Foreshore Road and contains an extensive collection of Bluff's maritime heritage.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ocean Beach and East End.
Ocean Beach
Neighborhood
Ocean Beach is an industrial area in the Southland Region of New Zealand. For around 100 years it was the site of a freezing works. This closed in 1991, and the site has been redeveloped as an aquaculture facility.
East End
Quarter
East End is a coastal suburb of New Plymouth, in the western North Island of New Zealand. It is located to the east of the city centre, north of Strandon, and west of Fitzroy.
Bluff
- Categories: port city and locality
- Location: Invercargill City, Southland, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-46.5988° or 46° 35′ 56″ southLongitude
168.3434° or 168° 20′ 36″ eastPopulation
1,840Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ BLUOpen location code
4V5CC82V+F8OpenStreetMap ID
node 974363520OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Turkish—“Bluff” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Bluff”
- Basque: “Bluff (Zeelanda Berria)”
- Basque: “Bluff”
- Catalan: “Bluff”
- Cebuano: “Bluff”
- Chinese: “布拉夫”
- Czech: “Bluff”
- Dutch: “Bluff”
- French: “Bluff”
- German: “Bluff”
- Italian: “Bluff”
- Japanese: “ブラフ”
- Japanese: “ブルーフ”
- Korean: “블러프”
- Malay: “Bluff, New Zealand”
- Malay: “Bluff”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bluff”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bluff på New Zealand”
- Norwegian: “Bluff”
- Polish: “Bluff”
- Spanish: “Bluff (Nueva Zelanda)”
- Spanish: “Bluff”
- Turkish: “Bluff, Yeni Zelanda”
- Turkish: “Bluff”
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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 “Bluff”. Photo: Karora, Public domain.