Thames
Thames is an old gold mining town on the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. Thames has a rich history and is the great place to start any visit to the Coromandel Pensinsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 7,480 residents
- Description: town in Waikato, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Thames, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thames railway station and Thames High School.
Thames railway station
Historic site
Photo: Ingolfson, Public domain.
The Thames railway station is a former railway station in Thames, New Zealand on the former Thames Branch from Morrinsville to Thames. The station opened on 19 December 1898 with the opening of the branch line.
Thames High School
School
Thames High School is a public high school in Thames, Waikato, New Zealand. Established in 1880, it is the second-oldest secondary school in the former Auckland Province.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tararu.
Tararu
Hamlet
Tararu is a former gold-mining village on the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand. State Highway 25 runs through it; Te Puru being about 7 km to the north, and Thames about 2 km to the south. Tararu is situated 3½ km northwest of Thames.
Thames
- Category: locality
- Location: Thames-Coromandel District, Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-37.1383° or 37° 8′ 18″ southLongitude
175.5375° or 175° 32′ 15″ eastPopulation
7,480Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport code
TMZOpen location code
4VJQVG6Q+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 59505369OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Thames” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثمز”
- Asturian: “Thames”
- Catalan: “Thames”
- Cebuano: “Thames”
- Chinese: “泰晤士”
- Dutch: “Thames”
- French: “Thames”
- German: “Thames”
- Hebrew: “תמז”
- Italian: “Thames (Nuova Zelanda)”
- Italian: “Thames”
- Japanese: “テムズ (ニュージーランド)”
- Japanese: “テムズ”
- Japanese: “ハウラキ”
- Korean: “템스”
- Malay: “Thames, New Zealand”
- Maori: “Pārāwai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Thames på New Zealand”
- Polish: “Thames”
- Russian: “Темс”
- Slovenian: “Thames, Nova Zelandija”
- Spanish: “Thames, Nueva Zelanda”
- Spanish: “Thames”
- Turkish: “Thames”
- Urdu: “تھیمز، نیوزی لینڈ”
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