Oceania · Illustrated record
Hot Water Beach
Auckland · New Zealand
The short version, from the cited sources
Hot Water Beach is on the east coast of New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, just south of Mercury Bay and about 12 km southeast of Whitianga. Its name comes from underground hot springs that seep up through the sand between the high and low tide marks, where visitors dig their own pools.
- Country
- New Zealand (NZ)
- Region
- Oceania
- Coast
- On the Pacific Ocean
- Administrative area
- Auckland
- Timezone
- Pacific/Auckland
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2006-03-04
Names in the record
Hot Water Beach
No alternate names were supplied by the source.
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- Sand color and composition
- Water and swimming character
- Access and accessibility
- Facilities and lifeguards
- Seasonality and crowd pattern
- Current hazards and restrictions
- Live weather, tide and water-quality feeds
Source position
-36.87819, 175.81021
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Direct provenance
Sources behind this record
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- GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗
Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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