Waimea College
Waimea College is a co-educational secondary school in Richmond, Tasman District, New Zealand. Opened in 1957, the college has over 1500 students, and is the largest school in the top of the South Island.Photo: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: School
- Description: state secondary (year 9-15) school in Richmond, New Zealand
- Address: 60 Salisbury Road, 7020
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Waimea Intermediate and Saxton Oval.
Waimea Intermediate
School
Waimea Intermediate is a co-educational intermediate school in Richmond, Tasman District, New Zealand. Waimea Intermediate is situated 260 metres west of Waimea College.
Saxton Oval
Pitch
Photo: Nelsonpubliclibraries, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saxton Oval, also known as Saxton Field, is a cricket ground in Saxton, Stoke, Nelson Region, New Zealand. Saxton Oval was one of the venues for the 2015 Cricket World Cup. It hosted three matches during the tournament. Saxton Oval is situated 1½ km northeast of Waimea College.
Garin College
School
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Garin College is a New Zealand Catholic, integrated, co-educational day and boarding secondary school in Nelson on the northern outskirts of Richmond. The college opened on 28 January 2002 to serve the Catholic community, particularly in the upper South Island. Garin College is situated 780 metres northeast of Waimea College.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Richmond and Appleby.
Richmond
Town
Nelson is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island. It is in a region often known as Nelson Bays or the "Top of the South" and is actually slightly north of the capital city of Wellington in the North Island.
Appleby
Quarter
Photo: Enigma28, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Appleby is a locality in the Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located around the Waimea River near the Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere. Appleby is situated 3 km west of Waimea College.
Monaco
Quarter
Monaco is a small suburb of Nelson, New Zealand, west of town centre of Stoke. It lies on a narrow peninsula which extends into Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere immediately to the south of Nelson Airport, southwest of central Nelson. Monaco is situated 3½ km north of Waimea College.
Waimea College
- Categories: secondary school, public school, and education
- Location: Tasman District, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-41.33881° or 41° 20′ 20″ southLongitude
173.198° or 173° 11′ 53″ eastOpen location code
4VCMM56X+F5OpenStreetMap ID
way 141591666OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolWikidata ID
Q7960118
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Waimea College” goes by many names.
- French: “Waimea College”
- Swedish: “Waimea College”
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