Marlborough
Marlborough is a region at the north-eastern end of the South Island of New Zealand, chock full of great food to eat and intriguing sights to see. It is renowned for its high sunshine hours, New Zealand's largest wine-growing area, whale and fur seal watching off the Kaikoura Coast and the sunken valleys of the Marlborough Sounds, where most of the world's green-lipped mussels are harvested.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Blenheim
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Blenheim is the most populous town in the Marlborough wine-growing region in the north-east of the South Island of New Zealand.
Kaikoura
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Kaikoura is a small coastal town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand, about 180 km north of Christchurch and 130 km south of Blenheim.
Picton
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Picton is a small but important town in the beautiful Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island of New Zealand.
Destinations
Marlborough Sounds
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The Marlborough Sounds are a series of drowned valleys at the northern end of the Marlborough region of the north-eastern tip of New Zealand's South Island.
Ward
Ward is a settlement in southern Marlborough. It is named after Sir Joseph George Ward, Premier of New Zealand in the early 20th century.Havelock
Havelock is a town in the Marlborough district of New Zealand known as the green-shell mussel capital of the world.Renwick
Renwick is a small town in Marlborough. It is in the heart of the Wairau Valley wine growing district and could be an alternative to Blenheim as a base from which to explore the region.Seddon
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Seddon is a town in Marlborough near the mouth of the Awatere River.
Pelorus Bridge
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Pelorus Bridge is a locality centred on the bridge over the Pelorus River between Havelock and Rai Valley on SH 6, the main road between Blenheim and Nelson, in New Zealand.
Marlborough
- Type: region of New Zealand with 52,200 residents
- Description: region and district in the north of New Zealand's South Island
- Neighbors: Canterbury and Greater Wellington
- Category: district of New Zealand
- Location: South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
-41.5693° or 41° 34' 10" southLongitude of centre
173.5883° or 173° 35' 18" eastPopulation
52,200Elevation
343 metres (1,125 feet)GeoNames ID
7910052Wikidata ID
Q140083Marlborough Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: إقليم مارلبورو
- Aragonese: Rechión de Marlborough
- Basque: Marlborough eskualdea
- Bengali: মার্লবোরো অঞ্চল
- Bulgarian: Марлборо
- Catalan: Marlborough
- Cebuano: Marlborough
- Cebuano: Marlborough District
- Chinese: Marlborough Tōa-khu
- Chinese: 馬爾堡
- Chinese: 马尔伯勒
- Chinese: 马尔堡
- Danish: Marlborough Region
- Dutch: Marlborough
- English: Marlborough District
- English: Marlborough Region
- English: Marlborough region
- Esperanto: Marlborough Regiono
- Finnish: Marlborough
- French: District de Marlborough
- French: Marlborough
- French: Marlborough District
- Georgian: მარლბოროს რეგიონი
- German: Marlborough
- German: Marlborough District
- German: NZ-MBH
- Greek: Mάρλμπορο
- Gujarati: માર્લબોરો પ્રદેશ
- Hindi: मार्लबोरो क्षेत्र
- Indonesian: Wilayah Marlborough
- Italian: Marlborough
- Japanese: マールボロ
- Japanese: マールボロ地方
- Kannada: ಮಾರ್ಲ್ಬರೋ ಪ್ರದೇಶ
- Korean: 말버러 지방
- Korean: 말보로 지방
- Latvian: Mārlboro reģions
- Lithuanian: Mariburo regionas
- Macedonian: Марлборо
- Malay: Wilayah Marlborough
- Maori: Tauihu
- Maori: Te Tauihu-o-te-waka
- Marathi: मार्लबोरो प्रदेश
- Min Nan Chinese: Marlborough Tōa-khu
- Moroccan Arabic: جيهة مارلبورو
- Norwegian: Marlborough
- Norwegian Bokmål: Marlborough, New Zealand
- Norwegian Bokmål: Marlborough
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Marlborough på New Zealand
- Occitan (post 1500): Marlborough
- Polish: Marlborough
- Portuguese: Região de Marborough
- Russian: Мальборо
- Russian: Марлборо
- Scottish Gaelic: Marlborough Region
- Serbo-Croatian: Marlborough
- Sinhala: මාල්බරෝ කලාපය
- Slovenian: Marlborough
- Spanish: Distrito de Marlborough
- Spanish: Marlborough
- Spanish: Región de Marlborough
- Swedish: Marlborough, Nya Zeeland
- Swedish: Marlborough
- Tamil: மார்ல்போராகஹ் பகுதி
- Telugu: మాల్బొరో ప్రాంతం
- Thai: มาโบเราท์
- Turkish: Marlborough
- Turkish: Marlborough Bölgesi
- Ukrainian: Мальбороу
- Ukrainian: Марлборо
- Urdu: مارلبورو ریجن
- Urdu: مارلبورو علاقہ
- Vietnamese: Khu vực Marlborough
- Welsh: Marlborough, Seland Newydd
- Welsh: Marlborough
- Western Armenian: Մարլպորոյի շրջան
- Western Panjabi: ضلع مارلبرا
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Marlborough. Photo: Herewhy, CC BY-SA 4.0.