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Oamaru

Oamaru is a town in North , , with beautiful Victorian buildings crafted from the fine, white local limestone, and colonies of penguins.
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  • Type: Town with 13,900 residents
  • Description: town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Ōamaru”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Waitaki District Council and St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru.

Government office
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
The building, the former Oamaru Chief Post Office, is the seat of the in Oamaru, New Zealand. Oamaru's first post office was built in 1864 to a design by William Mason and William Clayton.

Church
Photo: Andrew Cooper, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The St Patrick's Basilica or Oamaru Basilica, as it is popularly known because of its style of architecture, is a Catholic church in Oamaru, .

Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Weston.

Suburb
is a town situated 5 km inland from Oamaru, , . It is regarded as one of the more affluent towns of the and had a population of 1,050 in the 2018 census. is situated 4½ km northwest of Oamaru.

Oamaru

Latitude
-45.1° or 45° 5′ 60″ south
Longitude
170.9698° or 170° 58′ 11″ east
Population
13,900
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
OAM
Open location code
4V6GWX29+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 206015894
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6215045
Wiki­data ID
Q4782
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Oamaru” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوامرو”
  • Asturian: “Oamaru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Oamaru”
  • Belarusian: “Оамару”
  • Catalan: “Oamaru”
  • Cebuano: “Oamaru”
  • Chinese: “奥马鲁”
  • Chinese: “奧瑪魯”
  • Czech: “Oamaru”
  • Dutch: “Oamaru”
  • Esperanto: “Oamaru”
  • French: “Oamaru”
  • Georgian: “ოამარუ”
  • German: “Oamaru”
  • Greek: “Οαμαρού”
  • Hebrew: “אואמרו”
  • Italian: “Oamaru”
  • Japanese: “オマル”
  • Japanese: “オマルー”
  • Korean: “오아마루”
  • Lithuanian: “Oamaru”
  • Malay: “Oamaru”
  • Maori: “Ōamaru”
  • Maori: “Te Oha-a-Maru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Oamaru”
  • Norwegian: “Oamaru”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oamaru”
  • Polish: “Oamaru”
  • Portuguese: “Oamaru”
  • Russian: “Оамару”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Oamaru”
  • Spanish: “Oamaru”
  • Swedish: “Oamaru”
  • Turkish: “Oamaru”
  • Urdu: “اومارو”
  • Uzbek: “Oamaru”

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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 “Oamaru”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 4.0.