Motueka
Motueka is a town in the Nelson Bays region of New Zealand's South Island that lies close to the Motueka River. Nearby beaches are very popular with holidaymakers, and the area around Motueka has one of the country's highest annual sunshine-hour indices.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Samuel J Arnold, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Memorial Park and St Thomas’s Church (Anglican).
Memorial Park
Park
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Memorial Park is a cricket ground in Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand. Memorial Park is jointly owned by Tasman District Council and Wakatū Incorporation, a company representing 4,000 shareholders who are descendants of the original Te Tau Ihu Māori of the area.
Motueka High School
School
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Motueka High School is a coeducational secondary school in Motueka, New Zealand, established in 1955.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lower Moutere and Riwaka.
Lower Moutere
Hamlet
Lower Moutere is a settlement in the Tasman District of New Zealand's upper South Island. It is a farming community it the Lower Moutere valley, 6 km from Motueka close to the Moutere Inlet.
Riwaka
Village
Riwaka is a small settlement in the Tasman District of New Zealand's South Island. It lies beside Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere, five kilometres north of Motueka, and close to the mouth of the Riuwaka River. Riwaka is situated 3½ km north of Motueka.
Brooklyn
Hamlet
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Brooklyn is a settlement and rural valley in the Tasman District of New Zealand's upper South Island. It is located on the outskirts of Motueka, and is dominated by orchards. Brooklyn is situated 3½ km northwest of Motueka.
Motueka
- Type: Town with 8,280 residents
- Description: town on the South Island of New Zealand
- Category: locality
- Location: Tasman District, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.1125° or 41° 6′ 45″ southLongitude
173.0095° or 173° 0′ 34″ eastPopulation
8,280Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)IATA airport code
MZPUnited Nations Location Code
NZ MZPOpen location code
4VCMV2Q5+2QOpenStreetMap ID
node 53190048OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2184361Wikidata ID
Q489458
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Urdu—“Motueka” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Motueka”
- Catalan: “Motueka”
- Cebuano: “Motueka”
- Chinese: “莫圖伊卡”
- Danish: “Motueka”
- Dutch: “Motueka”
- French: “Motueka”
- German: “Motueka”
- Hebrew: “מוטואקה”
- Japanese: “モトゥエカ”
- Malay: “Motueka”
- Maori: “Motueka”
- Polish: “Motueka”
- Russian: “Мотуэка”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Motueka”
- Slovenian: “Motueka”
- Spanish: “Motueka”
- Swedish: “Motueka”
- Turkish: “Motueka”
- Urdu: “موٹیوکا”
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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 “Motueka”. Photo: Samuel J Arnold, CC BY-SA 3.0.