Waihola, Otago Map

About Waihola, Otago

Waihola is a locality in the Otago Region of New Zealand. It is a small community with a population of 370. It sits at an elevation of around 78 m above sea level. It lies approximately 36 km west-southwest of Dunedin, the regional capital. Waihola is located at 46.0333°S, 170.1000°E. It observes New Zealand Time (NZST/NZDT). Statistics New Zealand classifies the area as a rural settlement.

Waihola sits within a gentle embrace of rolling farmland, where the rich Otago soil yields its bounty under a wide, often luminous sky. It lies 35.9 km west-south-west of Dunedin (from Dunedin: bearing 240°T), and is situated 14.0 km north-east of Milton. The landscape here is a tapestry of verdant paddies and pasture, punctuated by the occasional cluster of mature trees that stand like sentinels against the prevailing winds. The air carries the clean scent of earth and growing things, a subtle perfume that speaks of the region's agricultural heart. Though Waihola is inland, a sense of spaciousness pervades, with the land stretching out towards the hazy blue of distant hills, a quiet testament to the vastness of the South Island's interior.

The character of Waihola is deeply rooted in its agricultural heritage, a place where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the flow of life. For generations, the land has been shaped by the labour of farmers, and the economy still hums with the steady pulse of dairy and sheep farming, the very lifeblood of the district. The nearby Waipori River, though some distance away, has historically played a role in the region's development, its presence a constant, albeit distant, reminder of the waterways that carve through the broader Otago landscape. In more recent times, the nearby Berwick Forest offers a different kind of natural amenity, a place for quiet contemplation or robust exploration along tracks like the McNally Walk, drawing travellers seeking solace in the dappled shade of its trees.

About This Waihola Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Waihola, Otago, New Zealand at coordinates -46.03333, 170.1. Use the Map and Satellite buttons to switch views, the plus and minus buttons to zoom, and Fullscreen to fill the screen.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map with four things the embedded map cannot do. It searches OpenStreetMap for any New Zealand town, suburb or landmark by name. It offers LINZ topographic maps as a base layer — the official Topo250 and Topo50 sheets, switching scale automatically as you zoom, and the standard reference for tramping, hunting and back-country travel. It offers LINZ aerial imagery down to 5cm resolution in urban areas. And it can take a single GPS fix from your device and report your position as both an NZTM2000 grid reference and plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what New Zealand search and rescue services work from. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map itself cannot load.

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Waihola sits within the Otago Region. Location data is drawn from the GeoNames geographical database and verified by coordinates, ensuring the correct Waihola is identified even where the name is shared across multiple New Zealand localities.