Contentious Beach
Contentious Beach is a beach in Napier City, Hawke’s Bay. Contentious Beach is situated nearby to Spriggs Park, as well as near the archaeological site Karetoki Whare.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sacred Heart College and Knox Church.
Sacred Heart College
School
Sacred Heart College, Napier is a state-integrated Catholic girls' secondary school located in Napier, New Zealand. It was founded on its present site in 1867 by the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions. Sacred Heart College is situated 590 metres south of Contentious Beach.
Knox Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Knox Church is situated 740 metres west of Contentious Beach.
Napier Prison
Ruins
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
Napier Prison is a visitor attraction and former prison in Napier, New Zealand. Built in 1862 and decommissioned as a prison in 1993, it is the country's oldest prison complex. Napier Prison is situated 1¼ km southeast of Contentious Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ahuriri and Napier.
Ahuriri
Suburb
Photo: Citikiwi, Public domain.
Ahuriri is a suburb of the city of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island. The area was a major site of Māori and European settlement, and the site of the Port of Napier until the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake.
Napier
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Napier in New Zealand is the most consistently Art Deco city in the world, due to being largely rebuilt in the 1930s following a devastating earthquake in 1931. It is in Hawke's Bay, on the sunny east coast of the North Island.
Central Napier
Quarter
Central Napier is the central area and business district of Napier, in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's eastern North Island. The main shopping street/downtown area of Napier is Emerson Street.
Contentious Beach
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: Napier City, Hawke’s Bay, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-39.47743° or 39° 28′ 39″ southLongitude
176.90982° or 176° 54′ 35″ eastOpen location code
4VGRGWF5+2WOpenStreetMap ID
way 377095348OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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Satellite Map
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Spriggs Park and Karetoki Whare.
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