Te Anau

Te Anau is a small town on the shore of Lake Te Anau, in the region of the . It is the gateway to and Milford Road.
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  • Type: Town with 2,930 residents
  • Description: town in New Zealand
  • Also known as: Gateway to Fiordland”, “Marakura”, and “The Walking Capital of the World

Places of Interest

Highlights include Te Anau Library and Fiordland College.

Library
Photo: Ambrosia10, CC0.

School
is a co-educational state secondary school for years 7–13 students. It is one of the two schools in Te Anau, New Zealand. Te Anau is situated on the shores of , at the gateway to , New Zealand's largest national park.

Work of art
is a work of art.

Te Anau

Latitude
-45.4145° or 45° 24′ 52″ south
Longitude
167.7175° or 167° 43′ 3″ east
Population
2,930
Elevation
215 metres (705 feet)
IATA airport code
TEU
United Nations Location Code
NZ TEU
Open location code
4V69HPP8+6X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 354120405
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2181625
Wiki­data ID
Q1154973
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Aragonese to Vietnamese—“Te Anau” goes by many names.
  • Aragonese: Te Anau
  • Asturian: Te Anau
  • Catalan: Te Anau
  • Cebuano: Te Anau
  • Chinese: 蒂阿瑙
  • Czech: Te Anau
  • Dutch: Te Anau
  • French: Te Anau
  • Georgian: ტე-ანაუ
  • German: Te Anau
  • Hebrew: טה אנאו
  • Italian: Te Anau
  • Japanese: テ・アナウ
  • Korean: 테아나우
  • Malay: Te Anau
  • Maori: Marakura
  • Maori: Te Anau
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Te Anau
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Te Anau
  • Norwegian: Te Anau
  • Polish: Te Anau
  • Romanian: Te Anau
  • Russian: Те-Анау
  • Slovenian: Te Anau
  • Spanish: Te Anau
  • Swedish: Te Anau
  • Turkish: Te Anau
  • Ukrainian: Те-Анау
  • Vietnamese: Te Anau

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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 “Te Anau”. Photo: Steve Collis, CC BY 2.0.