Murchison
Murchison is a small township in New Zealand on SH6 between the West Coast and Nelson. It has a small selection of cafes and restaurants.
- Type: Village with 606 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Hampden” and “Murchison, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Murchison Aerodrome and Murchison Area School.
Murchison
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Tasman District, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-41.7995° or 41° 47′ 58″ south
Longitude
172.3287° or 172° 19′ 43″ east
Population
606
Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)
Named after
Open location code
4VCJ682H+5F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Murchison” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مورشيسون”
- Asturian: “Murchison”
- Catalan: “Murchison”
- Cebuano: “Murchison”
- Dutch: “Murchison, New Zealand”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورشيسون”
- French: “Murchison”
- German: “Murchison”
- Japanese: “マーチソン (ニュージーランド)”
- Malay: “Murchison, New Zealand”
- Polish: “Murchison”
- Turkish: “Murchison”
- Urdu: “مرچیسن، نیوزی لینڈ”
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