Dunollie, West Coast Map

About Dunollie, West Coast

Dunollie is a locality in the West Coast Region of New Zealand. It sits at an elevation of around 30 m above sea level. It lies approximately 10 km north-northeast of Greymouth, the regional capital. Dunollie is located at 42.3883°S, 171.2601°E. It observes New Zealand Time (NZST/NZDT).

Dunollie lies cradled by the soft, rolling contours of the land, where the air carries the clean scent of damp earth and distant, cultivated fields. It lies 161.3 km north-west of Rolleston (from Rolleston: bearing 325°T), and is situated 10.0 km north-north-east of Greymouth. The landscape here is a gentle tapestry of green, a mosaic of pasture and native bush that climbs the slopes of Hall Ridge, its presence a constant, reassuring backdrop. The land is not dramatic, but possesses a quiet fortitude, the hills worn smooth by time and weather, their surfaces etched with the patient work of watercourses that thread their way through the valleys. The sky above often stretches wide and pale, a vast canvas where clouds drift at their own unhurried pace, casting fleeting shadows that momentarily deepen the hues of the land below.

The history of Dunollie is as much a story of enduring resilience as it is of the land itself. This was a place shaped by the steady hand of those who sought to coax a living from its soil, where the economy has long been tethered to the bounty of the earth – primarily dairy farming, its rhythm dictated by the seasons and the cycles of livestock. While the Grey River, a steady artery of water some eight kilometres distant, offers its own quiet influence, the true heart of Dunollie beats in the fields and the close-knit neighbourhoods. The local character is one of quiet industry, a place where the everyday is conducted with a practical grace, and where the memory of pioneering spirit still colours the way life unfolds.

About This Dunollie Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Dunollie, West Coast, New Zealand at coordinates -42.38828, 171.26013. 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.

My Location & Navigate starts the vector-tile navigator: live turn-by-turn driving directions from your current position to any destination, with spoken guidance, lane hints and automatic re-routing.

Live weather conditions with current observations and a 7-day forecast are powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time New Zealand and world news feeds keep the page current, while an editorial description provides background on Dunollie.

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