Wanaka

Wanaka is a town on the shores of Lake Wanaka in the of . It is the gateway to .
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  • Type: Town with 11,600 residents
  • Description: ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Pembroke” and “Wānaka”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Puzzling World and That Wānaka Tree.

Theme park
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is a tourist attraction near Wānaka, New Zealand. It began as a single storey maze in 1973, gradually expanding to become an award-winning complex of optical illusions and puzzling rooms and the world's first 3-D maze.

Photo: Michelle Maria, CC BY 3.0.
, also known as the That Wānaka Willow, is the nickname of a willow tree located at the southern end of in the region of .

Library
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Albert Town.

Suburb
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is located to the east of Wānaka in , . Until recently only a farming settlement, the population boom in this area has led to much new development. is situated 4 km east of Wanaka.

Wanaka

Latitude
-44.6942° or 44° 41′ 39″ south
Longitude
169.1365° or 169° 8′ 11″ east
Population
11,600
Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)
Named after
Lake Wānaka
IATA airport code
WKA
United Nations Location Code
NZ WKA
Open location code
4V7F844P+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 175803613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2184707
Wiki­data ID
Q930344
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Wanaka” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وانكا”
  • Aragonese: “Wanaka”
  • Asturian: “Wānaka”
  • Catalan: “Wanaka”
  • Cebuano: “Wanaka”
  • Chinese: “瓦納卡”
  • Chinese: “瓦纳卡”
  • Czech: “Wanaka”
  • Danish: “Wanaka”
  • Dutch: “Wanaka”
  • Finnish: “Wanaka”
  • Finnish: “Wānaka”
  • French: “Pembroke”
  • French: “Wanaka”
  • French: “Wānaka”
  • German: “Pembroke”
  • German: “Wanaka”
  • German: “Wānaka”
  • Hausa: “Wanaka”
  • Hebrew: “ואנקה”
  • Japanese: “ワナカ”
  • Korean: “와나카”
  • Malay: “Wanaka”
  • Maori: “Wānaka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wanaka”
  • Norwegian: “Wanaka”
  • Persian: “واناکا”
  • Polish: “Wanaka”
  • Portuguese: “Wanaka”
  • Russian: “Ванака”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wanaka”
  • Spanish: “Pembroke”
  • Spanish: “Wanaka”
  • Spanish: “Wānaka”
  • Swedish: “Wanaka”
  • Turkish: “Wanaka”
  • Turkish: “Wānaka”
  • Ukrainian: “Ванака (місто)”
  • Urdu: “واناکا”
  • Welsh: “Pembroke”
  • Welsh: “Wanaka”
  • Welsh: “Wānaka”

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