Legend of the Moeraki boulders

Legend of the Moeraki boulders is in New Zealand. Legend of the Moeraki boulders is situated nearby to the art gallery Wolfies Art Studio & Shop, as well as near the beach Onekakara.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Moeraki Boulders and Kātiki Point Lighthouse.

Moeraki Boulders

Photo: Beast from the Bush, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. Moeraki Boulders is situated 2½ km northwest of Legend of the Moeraki boulders.

Kātiki Point Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Hayden5650, Public domain.

The Kātiki Point Lighthouse, also known as Moeraki Lighthouse, shone for the first time in 1878, following several accidents on the dangerous reefs around the area, to make the area safer for ships that sailed past on their way to Port Chalmers, Dunedin. Kātiki Point Lighthouse is situated 4 km south of Legend of the Moeraki boulders.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moeraki and Hampden.

Moeraki

Village

Photo: jokertrekker, CC BY 3.0.

Moeraki is a small fishing village on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was once the location of a whaling station. In the 1870s, local interests believed it could become the main port for the north Otago area and a railway line, the Moeraki Branch, was built to the settlement and opened in 1877.

Hampden

Village

Hampden, a small town in North Otago, New Zealand, lies close to the North Otago coast, 35 kilometres south of Oamaru and 80 kilometres north of the city of Dunedin, to both of which it is connected by State Highway 1. Hampden is situated 4½ km northwest of Legend of the Moeraki boulders.

Kātiki

Locality

Kātiki is a small settlement in North Otago, New Zealand. It lies between the townships of Palmerston and Hampden on State Highway 1 at the northern end of Kātiki Beach, close to the Moeraki Peninsula. Kātiki is situated 4½ km south of Legend of the Moeraki boulders.

Legend of the Moeraki boulders

Type: Sign
Categories: information and tourism
Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-45.35684° or 45° 21′ 25″ south

Longitude

170.85614° or 170° 51′ 22″ east

Open location code

4V6GJVV4+7F

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5039877415

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=information

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