Wanaka
Wanaka is a town on the shores of Lake Wanaka in the South Island of New Zealand. It is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Puzzling World
Theme park
Photo: Yogi de, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Puzzling World 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.
That Wānaka Tree
Photo: Michelle Maria, CC BY 3.0.
That Wānaka Tree, also known as the That Wānaka Willow, is the nickname of a willow tree located at the southern end of Lake Wānaka in the Otago region of New Zealand.
Mount Aspiring College
School
Photo: Mountaspiringcollege, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Aspiring College is a state co-educational secondary school in Wānaka, New Zealand. It was founded in 1986 after the division of Wānaka Area School into separate primary and secondary schools.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Albert Town.
Albert Town
Quarter
Albert Town is located to the east of Wānaka in Otago, New Zealand. Until recently only a farming settlement, the population boom in this area has led to much new development. Albert Town is situated 4 km east of Wanaka.
Wanaka
- Category: locality
- Location: Queenstown-Lakes, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-44.6942° or 44° 41′ 39″ southLongitude
169.1365° or 169° 8′ 11″ eastPopulation
11,600Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)Named after
Lake WānakaIATA airport code
WKAUnited Nations Location Code
NZ WKAOpen location code
4V7F844P+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 175803613OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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)”
- Welsh: “Pembroke”
- Welsh: “Wanaka”
- Welsh: “Wānaka”
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