Golden Bay
Golden Bay is a very beautiful, relatively untouched and quiet area at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand that is often missed by travellers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Collingwood and Takaka.
Collingwood
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Collingwood is the only town of size beyond Takaka, in Golden Bay, in the northwest corner of New Zealand's South Island. At the height of the Victorian gold rush, Collingwood was proposed as the capital of New Zealand.
Takaka
Takaka is the largest town and hub of Golden Bay, in the northwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Agriculture and tourism are the main industries in Golden Bay, so the economy is fairly seasonal.
Onekaka
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Onekaka is a rural district on the coast between Takaka and Collingwood in Golden Bay, at the northwestern tip of the South Island, New Zealand. It has a population of around 250.
Golden Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Assassin Bay”, “Assassination Bay”, “Assassins Bay”, “Bay of the Assassins”, “Golden”, “Golden Bay/Mohua”, “Massacre Bay”, “Mohua”, and “Murderer’s Bay”
- Category: bight
- Location: Tasman District, New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Golden Bay” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Golden Bay”
- Cebuano: “Golden”
- Chinese: “金灣”
- Dutch: “Golden Bay”
- Dutch: “Moordenaarsbaai”
- Esperanto: “Ora Golfo”
- French: “Baie des Assassins”
- French: “Golden Bay”
- Georgian: “გოლდენ ბეი”
- Georgian: “გოლდენ-ბეი”
- German: “Golden Bay”
- German: “Golden Bay/Mohua”
- Japanese: “ゴールデン湾”
- Maori: “Mohua”
- Maori: “Te Tai Tapu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Golden Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Golden Bay”
- Norwegian: “Golden Bay”
- Russian: “Голден-Бей”
- Spanish: “Golden Bay/Mohua”
- Urdu: “گولڈن بے”
- Venetian: “Baja de Golden”
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