Collingwood Area School

Collingwood Area School is an area school in the Golden Bay / Mohua town of Collingwood in New Zealand. The school dates back to 1859, when it was founded as Collingwood School. It was known as Collingwood District High School from 1937 to 1978.

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Type: School
Description: state composite school (year 1–13) in New Zealand
Also known as: “Collingwood School”
Address: 36 Lewis Street, Collingwood

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Collingwood Historic Cemetery and Collingwood Museum.

Collingwood Historic Cemetery

Cemetery

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Collingwood Historic Cemetery is situated 430 metres southeast of Collingwood Area School.

Collingwood Museum

Museum

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Collingwood Museum is situated 680 metres northeast of Collingwood Area School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Collingwood and Gibbstown.

Collingwood

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Collingwood is the only town of size beyond Takaka, in Golden Bay, in the northwest corner of New Zealand's South Island. At the height of the Victorian gold rush, Collingwood was proposed as the capital of New Zealand.