Orana Wildlife Park
Orana Wildlife Park is New Zealand's only open-range zoo, sitting on 80 hectares of land, located on the outskirts of Christchurch. It opened in 1976, and is owned and operated by the Orana Wildlife Trust, a registered charity.Photo: Greg Hewgill, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Zoo
- Description: New Zealand’s only open-range zoo
- Address: 793 Mcleans Island Road, Christchurch, 8051
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Waimakariri River Regional Park.
Waimakariri River Regional Park
Park
Waimakariri River Regional Park is a regional park in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. It covers 15,000 hectares on the banks of the Waimakariri River, and is operated by Environment Canterbury. Waimakariri River Regional Park is situated 1¼ km northeast of Orana Wildlife Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include McLeans Island and Yaldhurst.
McLeans Island
Locality
McLeans Island is a rural area north and northwest of Christchurch city, and south of Waimakariri River. The area was an island in the Waimakariri River until the 1930s, when flood control measures and Great Depression work schemes blocked the south branch of the river which separated the island from the south bank.
Yaldhurst
Suburb
Yaldhurst is a semi-rural suburb on the western outskirts of Christchurch city. Frederick William Delamain, a settler and horse breeder, named a horse Yaldhurst after some stables in England. Yaldhurst is situated 6 km southeast of Orana Wildlife Park.
Harewood
Suburb
Photo: Mattarnold1, CC0.
Harewood is a northwestern suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. The suburb is split by State Highway 1, with the bulk of Harewood's residential areas to the east of the highway and its industrial areas to the west. Harewood is situated 8 km east of Orana Wildlife Park.
Orana Wildlife Park
- Categories: wildlife park, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.46749° or 43° 28′ 3″ southLongitude
172.46334° or 172° 27′ 48″ eastOpen location code
4V8JGFM7+28OpenStreetMap ID
way 27035489OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=zooWikidata ID
Q15264222
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In Other Languages
“Orana Wildlife Park” goes by many names.
- German: “Orana Wildlife Park”
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