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Explore Southgate
The district Southgate 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: 14°C / 58 °F
Morning Temperature | 13°C / 55 °F |
Evening Temperature | 13°C / 56 °F |
Night Temperature | 14°C / 56 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 72% |
Air Pressure | 1017 hPa |
Wind Speed | High wind, near gale with 24 km/h (15 mph) from South |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 40% of sky |
General Conditions | Scattered clouds |
Thursday, 25th of April 2024
14°C (58 °F)
14°C (58 °F)
Overcast clouds, high wind, near gale.
Friday, 26th of April 2024
14°C (58 °F)
10°C (50 °F)
Light rain, high wind, near gale, clear sky.
Saturday, 27th of April 2024
11°C (52 °F)
10°C (49 °F)
Scattered clouds, moderate breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
YHA Wellington City - Hostel
Grand Mercure Wellington
Mercure Wellington Central City Hotel & Apartments
Apollo Lodge Motel
Victoria Court Motor Lodge
Southgate Motor Inn
Airport Motor Lodge
ABEL TASMAN HOTEL WELLINGTON
The Setup on Dixon - Hostel
Halswell Lodge
Videos from this area
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Houghton Bay June 21 2013
Footage of Wellington, NZ's fiercest storm since the Wahine disaster on April 10 1968.
Diving 2 Jan
Houghton Bay. First time taking the GoPro out diving. Crays at 4:46 and 23:18 Octopus at 20:44 although you can only just see his eye looking at me.
Island Bay Festival 2010, Wellington - New Zealand
'Island Bay', a suburb of Wellington (New Zealand) held it's annual Festival from 13 - 21 February 2010. This event was founded in 1984 by Harry Midgely, a long time 'Island Bay' resident.
Damage to the Esplanade sea-wall at Island Bay June 21 2013
Footage of Wellington, NZ's fiercest storm since the Wahine disaster on April 10 1968.
Island Bay takes a Pounding June 21 2013
Footage of Wellington, NZ's fiercest storm since the Wahine disaster on April 10 1968.
Renee & Ants Wedding in Wellington; Island Bay.
Wedding photographed by Wellington based Wedding photographer; Tabitha Woods Photography. Wedding ceremony and reception held at; The Pines; Wellington. Further info at ...
Yun Pen shipwreck diving
Yun Pen shipwreck diving, Wellington, Owhiro Bay, Taputeranga marine reserve.
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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.
Berhampore, New Zealand
Berhampore is a suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It lies towards the south of the city, seven kilometres from the city centre, and two kilometres from the coast of Cook Strait. It is surrounded by the suburbs of Vogeltown, Newtown, Melrose, Island Bay, Kingston, and Mornington. The suburb was named after Berhampore in Bengal, one of the battlefields at the start of the Battle of Plassey of 1757.
Gifford Observatory
The Gifford Observatory is an astronomical observation facility located in Mount Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand. Operated by the Gifford Observatory Trust with the intent of making it available for use to Wellington school children, it is primarily used by secondary school students, and members of the Wellington Astronomical Society.
Island Bay, Wellington
Island Bay is a coastal suburb of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, situated 5 km south of the city centre. Island Bay lies on the bay which shares its name, one of numerous small bays west of Lyall Bay. 500m offshore in Island Bay lies Tapu Te Ranga Island, which forms a natural breakwater and provides a sheltered anchorage for local fishing boats.
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.
HMNZS Wellington (F69)
HMNZS Wellington was a Leander class frigate of the Royal Navy and the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). Originally commissioned in 1969 for the Royal Navy as HMS Bacchante, she joined the RNZN in 1982. She was decommissioned in 1999 and sunk in 2005.
Mornington, Wellington
Mornington is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, on the southern hills behind Brooklyn. It is named after the Duke of Wellington's father, the Earl of Mornington. The original Mornington is in County Meath, and was the Irish seat of the Duke's father. It was named in 1878 from the time when J.F.E. Wright (1827-1891) subdivided his land in the south-west of the city in partnership with Jacob Joseph, and created the suburbs of Mornington and Vogeltown.
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.
Berhampore State Flats
The Berhampore State Flats (also known as the Centennial Flats) at 493–507 Adelaide Road, Berhampore, Wellington, New Zealand, are an example of mass housing designed in the international style. The flats were designed by F. Gordon Wilson (1900–1959), chief architect at the Department of Housing Construction.
Wellington Zoo
Distinguished from the fictional Wellington Zoo near the Forest of Dean in England in the Primeval (TV series). Wellington Zoo is nestled in the green belt of Wellington, New Zealand. Now over 100 years old, it was the country’s first Zoo and has 13-hectare dedicated to over 100 different species of fauna from across the globe.
Houghton Bay
Houghton Bay is one of the southern suburbs of Wellington, New Zealand.
Lyall Bay
Lyall Bay is a bay and a suburb on the south side of the Rongotai isthmus in Wellington, New Zealand. The bay is a popular surf beach, featuring a breakwater at the eastern end. It has also been the site of surf lifesaving championships, and is home to two surf lifesaving clubs. Lyall Bay is a very popular and safe swimming beach. The beach is only two thirds of its original size; the construction of Wellington International Airport took away the eastern third of the beach.
Princess Bay
Princess Bay is one of the southern beaches of Wellington, New Zealand.
Tapu Te Ranga Marae
Tapu Te Ranga Marae is a "living" marae in Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Author Bruce Stewart is currently living there. The Marae is listed as a heritage site.
St. Patrick's College, Wellington
St Patrick's College is the oldest Catholic boys' secondary school in New Zealand.
Wellington Hospital, New Zealand
Wellington Hospital is Wellington, New Zealand's main hospital located in the suburb of Newtown. It is the main hospital run by Capital & Coast District Health Board (C&CDHB), the others including Kapiti Health Centre, and Kenepuru Hospital.
Athletic Park, Wellington
Athletic Park was a well-known ground used mostly for rugby matches in Wellington, New Zealand. The ground was also the inaugural home of New Zealand's principal knockout football tournament, the Chatham Cup (first held in 1923). It has now been demolished and replaced with a retirement village. It was famous for a very steep grandstand (the Millard Stand) which used to sway a little in the regular strong winds that Wellington is famous for.
Kilbirnie, New Zealand
Kilbirnie (from Scottish Gaelic: Cille Bhraonaidh), a suburb of Wellington in New Zealand, lies 3 kilometers to the south-east of the city centre. Travellers can reach Kilbirnie from the Wellington central business district either via the Mount Victoria Tunnel and Hataitai; over Mount Victoria; or around the coast. Kilbirnie sits on the eastern flank of the ridge which becomes Mount Victoria and on the flat of the Rongotai isthmus between Evans Bay to the north and Lyall Bay to the south.
Newtown Park
Newtown Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Wellington, New Zealand. It is currently used mostly for football (soccer) matches and athletic events. The main pitch has a 400 metre, all-weather rubberized athletics track around it, as well as the spectator stands and the corporate loungue. A second, rectangular pitch (Newtown Park 2) is attached south of the main facility.
Rongotai College
Rongotai College is an all-boys state secondary school in the south-eastern suburb of Rongotai in Wellington, New Zealand. The students are aged 12 to 19. The decile 6 school has a roll of over 650 students. About 40 per cent of the students are of European heritage, 20 per cent identify as Pasifika, 15 per cent Maori and there are various Middle Eastern and African students. The students wear a school uniform.
Owhiro Bay
Ōwhiro Bay is a southern suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, that overlooks the Cook Strait. It is situated west of the larger suburb of Island Bay.
Happy Valley, Wellington
Happy Valley is a southern suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It is a main thoroughfare between Wellington city and Wellington's somewhat rugged and scenic southern coast. Happy Valley currently has a small eclectic Green community. There is an active community garden nearby the main waterway, the Owhiro Stream, between the school and the coast. North Happy Valley has an active environmental care group called Friends of the Owhiro Stream (FOOS), who have done quite an amount of eco-renewal.
Victoria University Coastal Ecology Laboratory
The Victoria University Coastal Ecology Laboratory is a research facility of the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington that supports research in coastal ecology and marine biology. Located at the southern end of the North Island of New Zealand, in Island Bay on Wellington's south coast, approximately 8 km south of the University’s main campus, the laboratory overlooks Cook Strait and the exposed rocky reef systems of the Taputeranga Marine Reserve.
St Catherine's College, Wellington
St Catherine's College, a Catholic secondary school for girls, operates in the Wellington suburb Kilbirnie in New Zealand. It was founded in 1950 by the Sisters of Mercy. There was formerly a primary school on the site opened by the Sisters of Mercy in 1918. On 30 March 1983, St Catherine's College became an integrated school under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act of 1975. The Board of Trustees was first elected in 1989 and is responsible for the governance of the College.
Erskine College, Wellington
Erskine College is a collection of historic buildings (including the Chapel of the Sacred Heart) in Wellington, New Zealand. Built from 1905-6 by the Society of the Sacred Heart (Sacré Coeur), the buildings served as a Catholic girls' boarding school (Convent of the Sacred Heart at Island Bay) until its closure in 1985. The name was changed to Erskine College in the late 1960s to avoid confusion with Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt.
Newtown, New Zealand
The suburb of Newtown lies in the southern part of Wellington in New Zealand. The population at the last census (2006) was recorded as 8,409. The suburb lies east of Vogeltown, between Mount Cook and Berhampore. The main thoroughfares of Newtown are Riddiford St. , leading from Mount Cook to Berhampore and Melrose, and Constable St. , leading from Newtown to Kilbirnie.