Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island is in the Hauraki Gulf near , just off the of . It is 35 minutes by ferry from Auckland and is a popular destination for day trips and longer visits.
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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.

Aerodrome
Waiheke Island Aerodrome is a private airport on Waiheke Island, 17 nautical miles northeast of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ostend and Ōmiha.

Quarter
is a settlement on Waiheke Island, in 's within the . 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.

Village
is a rural settlement on the southwest coast of Waiheke Island in the of New Zealand. The settlement began when the O'Brien brothers subdivided their farm in 1922, naming it "Omiha Beach Estate".

Waiheke Island

Latitude
-36.805° or 36° 48′ 18″ south
Longitude
175.0991° or 175° 5′ 57″ east
Population
8,730
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
United Nations Location Code
NZ WKE
Open location code
4VMQ53WX+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 282970562
Geo­Names ID
2180399
Wiki­data ID
Q909136
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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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Waiheke Island”. Photo: Gadfium, Public domain.