Tauwharenīkau
Tauwharenīkau is a rural locality and a statistical area in the South Wairarapa District and Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. The locality is on SH 2 about 5 km east of Featherston and 7 km southwest of Greytown by road, and the statistical area covers the Tauwharenīkau River valley and plain north of SH 53.- Type: Hamlet with 1,480 residents
- Description: locality in South Wairarapa District, Wellington Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Tauherenikau”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Featherston prisoner of war camp and Fernside Homestead.
Featherston prisoner of war camp
Historic site
Photo: RDMALB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II at Featherston, New Zealand, notorious for a 1943 incident in which 48 Japanese and one New Zealander were killed.
Fernside Homestead
Manor estate
Fernside is a five-bedroom white-weatherboard slate-roofed American Colonial Revival style house with an L-shape plan. It covers approximately 9,000 square feet or less than 1,000 square metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Featherston and Greytown.
Featherston
Town
Photo: Deano87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Featherston is a town in the South Wairarapa District, in the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is at the eastern foothills of Remutaka Range close to the northern shore of Lake Wairarapa, 63 km north-east of central Wellington and 37 km south-west of Masterton. Featherston is situated 4½ km west of Tauwharenīkau.
Greytown
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greytown, is a rural town in the South Wairarapa District in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is 77 km by road north-east of Wellington and 24 km southwest of Masterton, travelling via State Highway 2. Greytown is situated 8 km northeast of Tauwharenīkau.
Pāpāwai
Hamlet
Pāpāwai is a historic settlement and marae located near Greytown, New Zealand. In the late 19th century, the marae was an important site of Te Kotahitanga, the Māori parliament movement. Pāpāwai is situated 9 km east of Tauwharenīkau.
Tauwharenīkau
- Category: locality
- Location: South Wairarapa District, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.11895° or 41° 7′ 8″ southLongitude
175.3791° or 175° 22′ 45″ eastPopulation
1,480Open location code
4VCQV9JH+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1700545006OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q65432521
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Tauwharenīkau” goes by many names.
- French: “Tauwharenikau”
- Maori: “Tauwharenīkau”
- Turkish: “Tauwharenīkau”
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