Sorrento Bay

Sorrento Bay is a bay in Lower Hutt City, Greater Wellington.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Petone Settlers Museum and Memorial Park.

Petone Settlers Museum

Museum

Petone Settlers Museum is a local history museum located in the Wellington Provincial Centennial Memorial, a historic building in Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Memorial Park is a venue for football matches in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is the home of Petone FC who have been based there since 1961 as well as Capital Football who look after the game for the Wellington Region.

Petone railway station

Railway station

Photo: Matthew25187, CC BY 3.0.

Petone railway station is a dual platform, suburban railway station located in the Lower Hutt, New Zealand suburb of Petone. It is on the Hutt Valley section of the Wairarapa Line, 10.5 km north of Wellington, and is the junction for the Melling Branch to Melling, which diverges westward from the main line to the north of the station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lower Hutt and Wainuiomata.

Lower Hutt

Photo: Deanpemberton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lower Hutt is a city of 112,000 people in the lower Hutt Valley, near Wellington, in the Greater Wellington region of the North Island of New Zealand. The city includes Lower Hutt and the separate communities of Petone, Eastbourne and Wainuiomata.

Wainuiomata

Suburb

Photo: Deanpemberton, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wainuiomata is a large dormitory suburb of Lower Hutt, in the Wellington metropolitan area in New Zealand. Its population was estimated as being 20,450 as of June 2025, with a density of 1,600 people per km2.

Petone

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Petone is a large suburb of Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. It stands at the southern end of the Hutt Valley, on the northern shore of Wellington Harbour.

Sorrento Bay

Type: Bay
Category: body of water
Location: Lower Hutt City, Greater Wellington, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-41.2549° or 41° 15′ 18″ south

Longitude

174.9058° or 174° 54′ 21″ east

Open location code

4VCPPWW4+38

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1463793263

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

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