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.Photo: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Puzzling World
Theme park
Photo: Yogi de, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Puzzling World is a tourist attraction near Wānaka, New Zealand.
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 coeducational secondary school in Wānaka, New Zealand.
Localities in the Area
Albert Town
Suburb
Albert Town is located to the east of Wānaka in Otago, New Zealand. Albert Town is situated 4 km east of Wanaka.
Wanaka
- Type: Town with 11,600 residents
- Description: ski and summer resort town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand
- 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=townGeoNames ID
2184707Wikidata ID
Q930344Wanaka Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: وانكا
- Aragonese: Wanaka
- Asturian: Wānaka
- Catalan: Wanaka
- Cebuano: Wanaka
- Chinese: 瓦納卡
- Chinese: 瓦纳卡
- Czech: Wanaka
- Danish: Wanaka
- Dutch: Wanaka
- English: Pembroke
- English: Wānaka
- Finnish: Wanaka
- 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: Wanaka
- Norwegian Bokmål: Wanaka
- Persian: واناکا
- Polish: Wanaka
- Portuguese: Wanaka
- Russian: Ванака
- Scottish Gaelic: Wanaka
- Spanish: Pembroke
- Spanish: Wanaka
- Spanish: Wānaka
- Swedish: Wanaka
- Turkish: Wānaka
- Ukrainian: Ванака (місто)
- Welsh: Pembroke
- Welsh: Wanaka
- Welsh: Wānaka
Other Places Named Wanaka
In the Area
Wanaka is situated close to the neighbourhoods Hidden Hills and Northlake.
- Riverside ParkNeighbourhood, 3½ km east
- Mount BarkerLocality, 6 km southeast
- Horseshoe BendLocality, 7 km northeast
- MaungaweraLocality, 8 km northeast
- The Criffel DiggingsLocality, 10 km south
- Glendhu BayHamlet, 10 km west
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 Wanaka. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.