Great Barrier Island
Great Barrier Island is in the outer Hauraki Gulf in northern New Zealand. It lies east of the Northland Peninsula and directly north of Coromandel Peninsula.
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
Notable Places in the Area
Mount Hobson
Scenic viewpoint
Mount Hobson is the highest mountain on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: largest island near New Zealand's North Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
Localities in the Area
Okiwi
Village
Okiwi is a small settlement and rural community at the head of the Whangapoua Estuary…
Whangaparapara
Village
Whangaparapara is a harbour and coastal community on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf.
Great Barrier Island
Latitude
-36.1961° or 36° 11' 46" southLongitude
175.4156° or 175° 24' 56" eastPopulation
939Elevation
340 metres (1,115 feet)IATA airport code
GBZOpen Location Code
4VMQRC38+H6GeoNames ID
2190504Also Known As
- Basque: Hesi Handia uhartea
- Belarusian: Вялікі Бар’ерны востраў
- Catalan: Great Barrier Island
- Cebuano: Great Barrier Island
- Chinese: 大巴里爾島
- Czech: Great Barrier Island
- Dutch: Great Barrier
- Dutch: Great Barriereiland
- English: Aotea
- English: Aotea Island
- English: Great Barrier Island (Aotea Island)
- Esperanto: Insulo Granda Bariero
- French: Aotea
- French: Great barrier island
- French: Ile Great Barrier
- French: Motu Aotea
- French: Île de la Grande Barrière
- French: Île great barrier
- French: île de la Grande Barrière
- Gallegan: Illa Gran Barreira
- Georgian: გრეიტ-ბარიერის კუნძული
- Georgian: დიდი ბარიერის კუნძული
- German: Great-Barrier-Insel
- German: Great Barrier Insel
- German: Great Barrier Island
- Greek: Νησί Γκρέιτ Μπάρριερ
- Indonesian: Pulau Great Barrier
- Italian: Isola Great Barrier
- Italian: isola Great Barrier
- Japanese: グレートバリアー諸島
- Japanese: グレート・バリア島
- Macedonian: Аотеја
- Macedonian: Голем Бариерен Остров
- Macedonian: Голем Препречен Остров
- Malayalam: ഗ്രേറ്റ് ബാരിയർ ദ്വീപ്
- Maori: Aotea
- Norwegian: Great Barrier Island
- Norwegian Bokmål: Great Barrier Island
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Great Barrier Island
- Persian: جزیره گریت بارئیر
- Polish: Great Barrier
- Portuguese: Ilha Great Barrier
- Russian: Аотеа
- Russian: Грейт-Барриер
- Spanish: Isla Gran Barrera
- Swedish: Aotea
- Swedish: Great Barrier Island
- Ukrainian: Грейт-Барр'єр
- Ukrainian: Грейт-Баррєр
- Isola della Grande Barriera
In the Area
Localities
- WhangaparaLocality
- AwanaLocality
- OkupuLocality
- OkiwiLocality
Landmarks
- Mount MatawheroHill
- Mount HealeHill
- The Hogs BackRidge
- HirakimataMountain
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