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Explore Mount Cook
The district Mount Cook of Wellington in Wellington City (Wellington) is located in New Zealand and is a district of the nations capital.
If you need a place to sleep, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
Depending on your travel schedule, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Blenheim, Palmerston North, Nelson, Richmond and New Plymouth. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 13°C / 55 °F
Morning Temperature | 8°C / 47 °F |
Evening Temperature | 12°C / 53 °F |
Night Temperature | 11°C / 53 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 2% |
Air Humidity | 50% |
Air Pressure | 1010 hPa |
Wind Speed | Strong breeze with 20 km/h (13 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 39% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Saturday, 30th of March 2024
13°C (56 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Light rain, strong breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 31st of March 2024
14°C (57 °F)
12°C (53 °F)
Overcast clouds, moderate breeze.
Monday, 1st of April 2024
14°C (58 °F)
12°C (53 °F)
Scattered clouds, gentle breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Grand Mercure Wellington
BOULCOTT SUITES
Nomads Capital Backpackers Wellington
Gilmer Apartment Hotel
Travelodge Wellington
QUEST ATRIUM SERVICED APTS
The Setup on Manners
TERRACE VILLAS EXECUTIVE APA
Mercure Wellington Central City Hotel & Apartments
Victoria Court Motor Lodge
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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.
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington (Māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui) was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, but offers a broad range of other courses as well. Entry to all courses at first year is open, although entry to second year in some programmes (e.g.
Wellington Region
The Wellington region of New Zealand occupies the southern end of the North Island.
Wellington High School (New Zealand)
Wellington High School is a co-educational (since 1905) secondary school in downtown Wellington, New Zealand. In 2005 the roll was approximately 1100 students. It was founded, as Wellington College of Design, in the 1880s with the intention of providing a more appropriate education for the Dominion than the narrow academic training provided by the existing schools. It is the first co-educational secondary in New Zealand.
Kelburn, New Zealand
Kelburn is an inner suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It is located on the hills to the west of the Central Business District.
Brooklyn, New Zealand
Brooklyn, a suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Brooklyn is a blend of circa 1900 weatherboard villa / bungalow houses around the central part of Brooklyn, blending more recent subdivisions built in the 1970s and 1990s. The shops / bars / cinema / food outlets have created a village atmosphere.
Aro Valley
The Aro Valley forms a small inner-city suburb of Wellington in New Zealand.
Zealandia (wildlife sanctuary)
Zealandia, formerly known as the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary, is a protected natural area in Wellington, New Zealand, where the biodiversity of 225 ha (just under a square mile) of forest is being restored. The sanctuary was previously part of the water catchment area for Wellington, between Wrights Hill and the Brooklyn wind turbine on Polhill.
Carter Observatory
The Carter Observatory stands at the top of the Botanic Gardens in Wellington, New Zealand. It re-opened in March 2010 following a NZ$5 million refurbishment, with a new exhibition and digital planetarium celebrating the culture, heritage and science of the Southern Skies.
Wellington Botanic Garden
The Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington, New Zealand, covers 25 hectares of land on the side of the hill between Thorndon and Kelburn, near central Wellington. The garden features 25 hectares of protected native forest, conifers, plant collections and seasonal displays. They also feature a variety of non-native species, including an extensive Rose Garden. They are classified as a Garden of National Significance by the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture.
Freedom Shop
The Freedom Shop is the name of an anarchist collective for the distribution of books and information based in Wellington New Zealand. It operates on a non profit basis, injecting income back into the project. They mainly sell books on anarchism, feminism, indigenous struggle, ecology and a range of activist issues. It also carries patches, badges, clothing and music.
Adam Art Gallery
The Adam Art Gallery is the purpose-built gallery of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Located in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, it is a forum for critical thinking about art and its histories as well as the professional structure within which the Victoria University Art Collection is managed. The original proposal for the Gallery was prepared by Jenny Harper and Christina Barton on 15 July 1997.
Wellington Cable Car
The Wellington Cable Car is a funicular railway in Wellington, New Zealand between Lambton Quay, the main shopping street, and Kelburn, a suburb in the hills overlooking the central city, rising 120 m over a length of 612 m. It is widely recognised as a symbol of Wellington.
Mount Cook, Wellington
The suburb of Mount Cook in Wellington in New Zealand stands on the southern fringe of the central city alongside Te Aro and to the north of Newtown. At the time of the 2006 census it had a population of 4,851 — an increase of 1,326 people since 2001 due to its proximity to educational facilities and to the central city. The suburb contains a small hill named Mount Cook, the origin-point of the original survey marks through Wellington. The hill took its name from Captain James Cook.
Thomas King Observatory
The Thomas King Observatory stands at the top of the Botanic Garden in Wellington, New Zealand, as part of the Carter Observatory. In the past it has housed research, preservation of heritage, education and promotion of astronomy to the public.
Cuba Street Carnival
The Cuba Street Carnival is a major street parade and creative celebration in Cuba Street, Wellington, New Zealand. Founded by Chris Morley-Hall in 1998, the festival involves hundreds of artists, performers, and a weekend audience of over 125,000. The Carnival was inspired by the Notting Hill Carnival and other raucous street parades and fairs.
Bar Bodega
Bar Bodega is a music venue in Wellington, New Zealand. Founded in 1991, it originally occupied a house earmarked for demolition by Transit New Zealand to make way for an inner city motorway extension. Due to the continuing short-term nature of the lease, the venue continued to exist with a relatively makeshift appearance until 2001 when the motorway extension was finally started and the venue shifted into new premises on Ghuznee Street.
Terrace Motorway Tunnel
The Terrace Tunnel takes the Wellington Urban Motorway (SH1) under The Terrace in central Wellington, New Zealand. Opened in 1978, it is 460 metres in length.
The Colonial Cottage Museum
The Colonial Cottage Museum is the oldest building in Wellington City, New Zealand. It's classified as a "Category I" ("places of 'special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value'") historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The cottage was built in 1858 and is located on Nairn Street in the suburb of Mount Cook, Wellington. The Cottage was built in a late Georgian style and is similar to other houses built from that time through to about 1870.
St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
St Mary of the Angels is a Catholic church on the corner of Boulcott and Willis Street in Wellington, New Zealand. It is the parish church for Wellington Central. The building is classified as a Category I ("places of 'special or outstanding historical or cultural heritage significance or value'") historic place by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The current building was opened in 1922, and is the third church built on the Boulcott Street site.
Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) is a New Zealand government agency responsible for the granting and registration of intellectual property rights, specifically patent, trade mark, design and plant variety rights. It is part of the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. According to its website, IPONZ "aims to ensure people realise the full economic potential of their intellectual property."
Hunter Building
The Hunter Building is the original building of the Victoria University of Wellington campus in Wellington, New Zealand. Built mostly of red brick in the Gothic-revival style, it was opened by the Governor of New Zealand, Lord Plunket, in 1904, but construction was not completed until 1906. Initially the building housed the entire university, but as staff and student numbers grew other buildings were added.
Dixon Street Flats
Dixon Street Flats is a historic building in Wellington, New Zealand designed by architect Ernst Plischke. The Dixon Street Flats in central Wellington were completed in 1944 (1947 in Kernohan) as part of the first Labour Government's state housing programme. They are considered to be the archetype of Modernist apartment blocks in New Zealand. The building was the first major high-rise building and first major apartment block to be completed in Wellington after the Second World War.
Former National Bank of New Zealand Building
The National Bank of New Zealand building is a historic building on the corner of Cuba Street and Vivian Street, Wellington, New Zealand. It is now occupied by Logan Brown Restaurant. The building, designed by Claude Plummer-Jones, contains an exceptionally fine main banking space. Built by day labour, the structure is of concrete, faced externally with Malmesbury stone for the rusticated base with sandstone for the levels above. The building is classical in style.
Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
The Malaghan Institute of Medical Research is an independent biomedical research institute associated with the Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. The Malaghan Institute specialises in the immune system, and how it can be harnessed for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, asthma, arthritis, multiple sclerosis and infectious disease. About half of the activities are directed at cancer research.
Inverlochy House
Inverlochy House (also known as Inverlochie House and Inverlochy Flats) is a historic building and art school in Wellington, New Zealand. The house was originally built for the Wellingtonian councillor Kennedy Macdonald in 1878.