Ōrau Marine Reserve
Ōrau Marine Reserve is a nature reserve in New Zealand. Ōrau Marine Reserve is situated nearby to the quarter Ocean Grove, as well as near the hamlet Highcliff.Places of Interest
Highlights include Smaills Beach and Tomahawk Beach.
Smaills Beach
Beach
Photo: VeryRarelyStable, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Smaills Beach is a beach on the Pacific Ocean 7.6 kilometres southeast of the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located within the Ocean Grove Reserve adjacent to Tomahawk Beach, at the point where Otago Peninsula joins the mainland of the South Island, Smaills Beach is a white sand beach for much of its length, but its western end is covered in volcanic boulders.
Tomahawk Beach
Beach
Tomahawk Beach is a beach on the Pacific Ocean 7.5 kilometres southeast of the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located within the Ocean Grove Reserve between St Kilda Beach and Smaills Beach, at the point where Otago Peninsula joins the mainland of the South Island, Tomahawk Beach is a white sand beach popular with casual beach-goers and dog-walkers as well as surfers.
Boulder Beach
Beach
Boulder Beach is a rocky beach on the Pacific Ocean, located on the south side of Otago Peninsula, some 15.7 kilometres by road east from central Dunedin, New Zealand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Andersons Bay and St Kilda.
Andersons Bay
Suburb
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Andersons Bay is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located in the southeast of the city's urban area, 2.8 kilometres southeast of the city's centre.
St Kilda
Suburb
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Kilda is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. A densely populated residential suburb, it lies on the southern part of the city's central plain, to the southwest of the head of the harbour and immediately north of Ocean Beach, parts of which are within the suburb and form its major geographical feature.
Shiel Hill
Suburb
Shiel Hill is a residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located at the southeastern edge of the city's urban area, 3.2 kilometres southeast of the city's centre at the western end of the Otago Peninsula, close to the isthmus joining the peninsula to the mainland.
Ōrau Marine Reserve
- Type: Nature reserve
- Category: recreation area
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.9176° or 45° 55′ 3″ southLongitude
170.5754° or 170° 34′ 31″ eastOpen location code
4V6G3HJG+X5OpenStreetMap ID
way 1551421123OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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