Kaikoura
Kaikoura is a small coastal town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, about 180 km north of Christchurch and 130 km south of Blenheim.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Inkey, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 2,420 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Kaikōura”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mayfair Theatre and Kaikōura High School.
Kaikōura High School
School
Kaikōura High School is a state co-educational secondary school in Kaikōura, New Zealand. The first secondary school in Kaikōura was a district high school, which opened in 1903.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include South Bay.
Kaikoura
- Category: locality
- Location: Kaikōura District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.4006° or 42° 24′ 2″ southLongitude
173.6811° or 173° 40′ 52″ eastPopulation
2,420Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)IATA airport code
KBZUnited Nations Location Code
NZ KBZOpen location code
4V9MHMXJ+QFOpenStreetMap ID
node 205039578OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2189272Wikidata ID
Q25834
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kaikoura” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كايكورا”
- Asturian: “Kaikōura”
- Catalan: “Kaikoura”
- Cebuano: “Kaikoura”
- Chinese: “凯库拉”
- Chinese: “凱富拉”
- Chinese: “凱庫拉”
- Czech: “Kaikoura”
- Dutch: “Kaikoura”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كايكورا”
- Esperanto: “Kaikoura”
- French: “Kaikoura”
- Georgian: “კაიკოურა”
- Georgian: “კაიკურა”
- German: “Kaikoura”
- Indonesian: “Kaikoura”
- Italian: “distretto di Kaikoura”
- Italian: “Distretto di Kaikoura”
- Italian: “Kaikoura”
- Japanese: “カイコウラ”
- Khmer: “cabodian”
- Korean: “카이코우라”
- Latin: “Caecoura”
- Macedonian: “Каикоура”
- Malay: “Daerah Kaikoura”
- Maori: “Kaikōura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaikoura”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kaikoura”
- Polish: “Kaikoura”
- Portuguese: “Kaikoura”
- Russian: “Каикоура”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kaikoura District”
- Slovenian: “Kaikōura”
- Spanish: “Kaikoura”
- Swedish: “Kaikoura”
- Turkish: “Kaikoura”
- Turkish: “Kaikōura”
- Vietnamese: “Kaikōura”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کائیکورا”
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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 “Kaikoura”. Photo: Inkey, Public domain.