Oreville Barrier Reef Battery and Smelting House
Oreville Barrier Reef Battery and Smelting House is in Auckland, Auckland Region, and is located on Whangaparapara Road. Oreville Barrier Reef Battery and Smelting House is situated nearby to the peak Te Ahumata, as well as near the village Whangaparapara.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: historic ore crushing favility at Whangaparapa, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Oreville Battery Site and Mine Complex”, “Oreville Stamping Battery”, and “Oroville”
- Address: Whangaparapara Road
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Great Barrier Island.
Great Barrier Island
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Great Barrier Island is in the outer Hauraki Gulf in northern New Zealand. It lies east of the Northland Peninsula and directly north of Coromandel Peninsula.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whangaparapara and Okupu.
Whangaparapara
Village
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
Whangaparapara is a harbour and coastal community on Great Barrier Island in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf. Europeans settled Whangaparapara for mining, timber milling and whaling. It is now a tourism and boating spot, where boats can pick up fuel and water.
Okupu
Village
Okupu is a small settlement on the southwestern side of Great Barrier Island in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. The settlement is on Okupu Bay, which is a part of Blind Bay, off Colville Channel and Hauraki Gulf. Okupu is situated 3 km southeast of Oreville Barrier Reef Battery and Smelting House.
Claris
Village
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
Claris is a settlement on the east coast of Great Barrier Island in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. Though less populous than the main seaport area of Tryphena on the west coast, Claris functions as the administrative centre for the island, and a large… Claris is situated 4 km east of Oreville Barrier Reef Battery and Smelting House.
Oreville Barrier Reef Battery and Smelting House
- Categories: smelter and tourism
- Location: Auckland, Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-36.2317° or 36° 13′ 54″ southLongitude
175.42184° or 175° 25′ 19″ eastOpen location code
4VMQQC9C+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 7273400385OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q132128948
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