Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island is in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, just off the North Island of New Zealand. It is 35 minutes by ferry from Auckland and is a popular destination for day trips and longer visits.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand
- Also known as: “Waiheke”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waiheke Reeve Airport and Pukeatua Reserve.
Waiheke Reeve Airport
Aerodrome
Waiheke Island Aerodrome is a private airport on Waiheke Island, 17 nautical miles northeast of Auckland, New Zealand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ostend and Ōmiha.
Ostend
Quarter
Photo: LittleT889, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ostend is a settlement on Waiheke Island, in New Zealand's Hauraki Gulf within the Auckland Region. Ostend is located in the west of the island, on and around a small peninsula which juts into Putiki Bay, one of two large indentations in the island's southwest coast.
Ōmiha
Village
Photo: Prosperosity, CC BY 4.0.
Ōmiha is a rural settlement on the southwest coast of Waiheke Island in the Auckland Region of New Zealand. The settlement began when the O'Brien brothers subdivided their farm in 1922, naming it "Omiha Beach Estate".
Waiheke Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Auckland Region, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-36.805° or 36° 48′ 18″ southLongitude
175.0991° or 175° 5′ 57″ eastPopulation
8,730Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ WKEOpen location code
4VMQ53WX+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 282970562GeoNames ID
2180399Wikidata ID
Q909136
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Waiheke Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة واهيكي”
- Cebuano: “Waiheke Island (pulo, lat -36,80, long 175,10)”
- Cebuano: “Waiheke Island”
- Chinese: “怀希基岛”
- Chinese: “怀赫科岛”
- Chinese: “懷希基島”
- Chinese: “激流岛”
- Czech: “Waiheke”
- Danish: “Waiheke Island”
- Dutch: “Waiheke eiland”
- Dutch: “Waiheke Island”
- Dutch: “Waiheke-eiland”
- Dutch: “Waihekeeiland”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره واهيكى”
- Esperanto: “Waiheke”
- Estonian: “Waiheke saar”
- French: “Ile Waiheke”
- French: “île Waiheke”
- French: “Île Waiheke”
- French: “Waiheke Island”
- French: “Waiheke”
- Galician: “Illa Waiheke”
- Georgian: “ვაიჰეკე”
- Georgian: “უაიჰეკე”
- Georgian: “უაიჰეკეს კუნძული”
- German: “Waiheke Island”
- German: “Waiheke”
- Greek: “Νησί Γουαϊχέκε”
- Hebrew: “ואיהיקי”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Waiheke”
- Italian: “isola Waiheke”
- Italian: “Isola Waiheke”
- Italian: “Waiheke Island”
- Japanese: “ワイヘキ島”
- Japanese: “ワイヘケ島”
- Korean: “와이헤케”
- Korean: “와이헤케섬”
- Lithuanian: “Vaihekė”
- Macedonian: “Ваихеке”
- Malay: “Pulau Waiheke”
- Maori: “Waiheke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waiheke Island”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Waiheke Island”
- Norwegian: “Waiheke Island”
- Polish: “Waiheke”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Waiheke”
- Russian: “Уаихеке”
- Slovak: “Waiheke”
- Slovenian: “otok Waiheke, Nova Zelandija”
- Slovenian: “otok Waiheke”
- Slovenian: “Waiheke”
- Spanish: “Isla Waiheke”
- Spanish: “Waiheke”
- Swedish: “Waiheke Island”
- Swedish: “Waiheke”
- Swedish: “Waihekeön”
- Turkish: “Waiheke Adası”
- Uzbek: “Waiheke”
- Welsh: “Ynys Waiheke”
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