Brown Owl
District of Mangaroa
in Upper Hutt City of Wellington, New Zealand
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Paraparaumu Airport (16 mi) - Wellington International Airport (22 mi)
- Hood Airport (29 mi)
- Palmerston North Airport (61 mi)
- Picton Aerodrome (62 mi)
- RNZAF Base Ohakea (65 mi)
- Woodbourne Airport (70 mi)
- Wanganui Airport (80 mi)
- Christchurch International Airport (210 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- -41.117 and 175.117 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- S -41° 7' 0" and E 175° 7' 0"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Dollar - NZD
- Spoken languages:
- English, Maori
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 08:38 AM (Saturday)
- Timezone: Pacific/Auckland
- UTC/GMT offset: 12 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 9:09 am and 7:23 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- 41.093 and -4.900 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
San Esteban de Zapardiel - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to New Zealand.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning New Zealand. Last Update: 2024-05-03 08:06:06
Delve into Brown Owl
The district Brown Owl of Mangaroa in Upper Hutt City (Wellington) is a subburb in New Zealand about 21 mi north-east of Wellington, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 15°C / 59 °F
| Morning Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 9°C / 48 °F |
| Night Temperature | 10°C / 51 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 0% |
| Air Humidity | 55% |
| Air Pressure | 1017 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 6 km/h (4 mph) from North-West |
| Cloud Conditions | Clear sky, covering 2% of sky |
| General Conditions | Sky is clear |
Saturday, 4th of May 2024
16°C (60 °F)
7°C (44 °F)
Sky is clear, calm, clear sky.
Sunday, 5th of May 2024
16°C (61 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Monday, 6th of May 2024
15°C (59 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Hawks Inn Motel
Wallaceville Motor Lodge
Bristol Motel
Totara Lodge
Videos from this area
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Hapkido Blue Belt Self Defence December 2013
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Hutt City Bike the Trail 2015
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Penalty! Upper Hutt City v Marist
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Medieval Fair at Harcourt Park 2015
World Invitational Jousting Competition - Grail of Chivalry Full armour battles - Pacific Cup Costumes, blacksmith, medieval fair Harcourt Park - Upper Hutt, New Zealand, February 2015.
Upper Hutt Spring Festival 2009
http://huttnz.co.nz Upper Hutt Spring Festival 2009. A quick look around at the large numbers in attendance on what was a beautiful Spring day. On Main Street.
Battle of the Nations - Sword Fighting at Medieval Fair in Harcourt Park
Foot combat competitions with a full battle between Team Australia and New Zealand at Harcourt Park World Invitational Jousting Tournament, February 2013.
Upper Hutt snow storm August 2011
A drive through Upper Hutt during the snow storm 16 August 2011.
Hanminjok Hapkido Ki Hap Hyung 1 with Sean and Mike December 2014
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LIFE FLIGHT TRUST HELICOPTER - WELLINGTON
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Mangaroa
Mangaroa is a rural suburb of Upper Hutt situated in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is home to Mangaroa School, and previously the Mangaroa Railway Station.
Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt is a satellite city of Wellington. It is New Zealand's smallest city by population. It is in Greater Wellington.
Akatarawa River
The Akatarawa River is located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is a short river, flowing south for 20 kilometres through small rocky gorges and the Akatarawa Valley before joining the Hutt River at the northern end of Upper Hutt. Its eventual outflow is into Wellington Harbour, then into Cook Strait.
Rimutaka Tunnel
The Rimutaka Tunnel (officially Tunnel 2, Wairarapa Line) is a railway tunnel through New Zealand's Rimutaka Ranges, between Maymorn, near Upper Hutt, and Featherston, on the Wairarapa Line. The tunnel, which was opened to traffic on 3 November 1955, is 8.798 kilometres long. It was the longest tunnel in New Zealand, superseding the Otira Tunnel in the South Island until the completion of the Kaimai Tunnel (8.88 km, 5.55 miles) near Tauranga in 1978.
Te Marua
Te Marua is the northernmost urban suburb of Upper Hutt. The usual resident population in the 2006 census was 1,068. For reasons of location and distance from the city, the area is often classified as rural. Te Marua is well known for its Plateau Reserve where remnants of the old Rimutaka Railway path can be found, which now form part of a historic walk. Mt Climie, the highest peak of the Rimutaka Range, can also be reached from the Reserve.
Heretaunga College
Heretaunga College is a secondary school located in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. It is co-educational and has approximately 800 students from Year 9 (3rd form) through to Year 13 (7th Form). The college grounds are a large area with primary access via Ward Street (which runs North-West to South-East) and secondary access via Blockhouse Lane and Fortune Lane.
Emerald Hill, New Zealand
Emerald Hill is a hill (and unofficial suburb or locality name) in the suburb of Birchville, Upper Hutt, New Zealand. The name Emerald Hill has been applied to an up-market housing development on the north-eastern slopes of Emerald Hill that consists of around 4 or 5 streets off the end of Gemstone Drive, so as to distinguish it from the older and more down-market Parkdale subdivision.
Birchville
Birchville is a suburb of Upper Hutt, New Zealand in the North Island. Its centre lies at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley, in the north of the city, near confluence of the Akatarawa Stream with the Hutt River. It is about a 5 km (10 minute) drive north from the centre of Upper Hutt. The Birchville community is spread out along both banks of the Hutt River in a long fairly narrow valley. Originally described as being part of Akatarawa or Mungaroa in early news paper reports.
Maymorn
Maymorn is a rural area of Upper Hutt city in the Wellington region of New Zealand. For statistical purposes, Maymorn is counted as part of Te Marua in the New Zealand census. The usual resident 2006 population of this area was 1,068. Because it is marginally populated, the area is best known for the Maymorn railway station, which is on the Wairarapa railway line between Woodville and Wellington and served by the Wairarapa Connection daily passenger train.
Maymorn Railway Station
Maymorn railway station is a twin platform, rural railway station serving the small settlement of Maymorn on the Maymorn Plateau, east of Upper Hutt, in New Zealand’s North Island. It is served by the Wairarapa Connection, and sees five services each way Monday to Thursday, six on Friday and two on Saturday and Sunday. This station was initially known as Mangaroa and received its present name on 26 January 1959.
Upper Hutt Railway Station
Upper Hutt railway station is a two-platform urban railway station serving the city of Upper Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island. The station lies on the Wairarapa Line, and is on Station Crescent, off Fergusson Drive. This station is served by the Wairarapa Connection (as a through station) and Tranz Metro electric multiple units (as a terminus station) trains.
Mangaroa Railway Station
Mangaroa railway station was a single-platform rural railway station on the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt and Featherston in the Wellington region of New Zealand’s North Island, on the section that was replaced by the Rimutaka Deviation in 1955. It served the small rural settlement of Mangaroa, in the Mangaroa Valley, east of Upper Hutt.
Karapoti Gorge
Karapoti Gorge is one of the entrances into the Akatarawa Forest, a regional park in the Wellington Region in New Zealand. The Akatarawa River West runs through this narrow, mostly bush-clad gorge towards the Akatarawa Valley. A narrow road winds its way along the steep slopes, providing access for trail biking, mountain biking and walking. Karapoti Gorge is also the starting leg of the annual Karapoti Classic mountain bike event, which runs on the network of tracks in the Akatarawa Forest.
Wallaceville
Wallaceville is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. It is named after John Howard Wallace (1816-91), an early New Zealand settler, local body politician, businessman and author of one of the first published histories of New Zealand. It is home to the oldest surviving wooden blockhouse in New Zealand. AgResearch has its National Centre for Biosecurity and Infectious Diseases at Wallaceville.
Elderslea
Elderslea is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand, positioned about a kilometre from the Upper Hutt city centre.
Ebdentown
Ebdentown is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand situated about a kilometre from the Upper Hutt city centre.
Clouston Park
Clouston Park is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located in the lower North Island of New Zealand.
Kingsley Heights
Kingsley Heights is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The suburb is on a hill overlooking the city centre, but is also expanding into an adjacent valley. This suburb houses drinking water storage tanks for Upper Hutt
Maoribank
Maoribank is a suburb of Upper Hutt, located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. Te Āti Awa iwi had a village in Te Hau-Karetu (Maoribank) before European settlement.
Brown Owl, New Zealand
Brown Owl is a suburb of Upper Hutt located in the lower North Island of New Zealand. The origin of the name Brown Owl is somewhat uncertain, with at least 3 different stories offered by various historians. The Brown Owl Tea Rooms, later a Cabaret and Ballroom, stood at the corner of Akatarawa Road and Main Road (now State Highway 2) and were a popular dining and entertainment venue between 1927 and about 1962, before being purchased by the Rimutaka Baptist Church.
Wallaceville Railway Station
Wallaceville Railway Station is a single-platform urban railway station serving the suburb of Wallaceville in Upper Hutt. The station lies on the Hutt Valley Line section of the Wairarapa Line between Upper Hutt Railway Station and Trentham Railway Station, and is located on Maclean Street, off Ward Street. This station is served by Tranz Metro's electric multiple unit trains, typically of the EM/ET class.
Upper Hutt Blockhouse
The Upper Hutt Blockhouse also known as the Wallaceville Blockhouse is a 19th-century American-style military blockhouse situated in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. One of very few such blockhouses built in New Zealand, it is preserved as a Category I historic place. It was built in late 1860 as part of a larger Stockade and was one of two Blockhouses and Stockades built in the Hutt Valley that year.
Little Akatarawa River
The Little Akatarawa River is a river of the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It is a tributary of the Akatarawa River, which it meets five kilometres northwest of Te Marua.
Mangaroa River
The Mangaroa River is a river of the Wellington Region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows north from the western foothills of the Rimutaka Range to the west of Lower Hutt, meeting with the Hutt River on the northern outskirts of Upper Hutt.
Maidstone Park
Maidstone Park is a cricket ground in Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. A single List A match was held there during the 1978/79 Gillette Cup when Wellington played Canterbury, which resulted in a 4 wicket victory by Canterbury. The following season a first-class match was held there between Wellington and Central Districts in the 1979/80 Shell Trophy, which resulted in an innings and 45 runs victory for Wellington.
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