South Island
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Buller District

Westport

Westport is the main town of the Buller District, in the northern part of the of the of . Westport has spectacular beaches at its back door, and the mighty Buller River, the largest river by volume in NZ, runs right beside the town.
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  • Type: Town with 4,280 residents
  • Description: town in New Zealand
  • Also known as: “Westport, New Zealand”
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library and NBS Theatre.

Library
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
The , also known as the Westport Library and the Buller District Library, is a district library located in Westport in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand.

Theater building
Photo: NZ Owen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a theater building.

Church
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
St Canice's Church in Westport, New Zealand, is a Catholic parish church, designed by John Scott. Consecrated in 1976, it is the second church on the site, replacing the earlier St Canice's designed by Francis Petre and completed in 1888.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sergeants Hill and Carters Beach.

Locality
is a lightly populated locality in the West Coast region of New Zealand's . It is situated in a rural setting on the eastern outskirts of Westport in the . is situated 4 km east of Westport.

Village
is a suburb of Westport on the West Coast of South Island. Located 6 kilometres west of Westport on State Highway 67A, it offers a pristine sheltered sandy beach on the West Coast suitable for swimming. is situated 4 km west of Westport.

Westport

Latitude
-41.7542° or 41° 45′ 15″ south
Longitude
171.6036° or 171° 36′ 13″ east
Population
4,280
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
WSZ
United Nations Location Code
NZ WSZ
Open location code
4VCH6JW3+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 174645480
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2206900
Wiki­data ID
Q1349217
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Satellite Map

Discover Westport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Westport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويستبورت”
  • Asturian: “Westport”
  • Catalan: “Westport”
  • Cebuano: “Westport”
  • Dutch: “Westport”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويستبورت”
  • French: “Westport”
  • Georgian: “უესტპორტი (ახალი ზელანდია)”
  • Georgian: “უესტპორტი”
  • German: “Westport”
  • Hebrew: “ווסטפורט”
  • Hebrew: “וספורט”
  • Japanese: “ウェストポート”
  • Japanese: “ウエストポート”
  • Korean: “웨스트포트”
  • Lithuanian: “Vestportas (Naujoji Zelandija)”
  • Lithuanian: “Vestportas”
  • Malay: “Westport, New Zealand”
  • Maori: “Kawatiri”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Westport på New Zealand”
  • Polish: “Westport”
  • Portuguese: “Westport”
  • Spanish: “Westport”
  • Swedish: “Westport, Nya Zeeland”
  • Turkish: “Westport”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестпорт (Нова Зеландія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Вестпорт”
  • Urdu: “ویسٹ پورٹ، نیوزی لینڈ”

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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 “Westport”. Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.