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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
New Zealand's bold national museum, renowned for its interactive exhibits, Maori taonga, and a colossal squid specimen.
13 km · about 25 min drive
Wellington Region, New Zealand · Oceania
Normandale is worth a stop: 13km from Mount Victoria Lookout, Wellington.
Normandale is a town located in Wellington Region, New Zealand. With a population of 2,150, it is an important destination in Oceania.
On a road trip, Normandale sits in New Zealand, where you drive on the left. It's in the Pacific/Auckland time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Normandale to your route.
Normandale is a semi-rural suburb of Lower Hutt City, New Zealand, on the western hills of the Hutt Valley. It consists of two main roads – Normandale Road and Miromiro Road – and the hills between, and is a five minute drive from the Lower Hutt city centre.
Normandale contains historic woodland reserve Jubilee ParkRead more
and part of Belmont Regional Park, Wellington's largest Regional Park. It also has many other smaller sections of native bush reserve, so native birds are very common; since 2019 Kiwibank has funded the suburb to suppress bird-killing predators as part of New Zealand's Predator Free project. Normandale is home to a primary school, a Playcentre, a church, a cattery, and a dog boarding kennel, and is otherwise entirely residential. As an older suburb made up entirely of narrow and steep hills, it is dominated by trees.
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Normandale is located in Wellington Region, New Zealand, Oceania. The coordinates are -41.1983 latitude, 174.8802 longitude.
Normandale has a population of approximately 2,150 people, making it a town in New Zealand.
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museum
New Zealand's bold national museum, renowned for its interactive exhibits, Maori taonga, and a colossal squid specimen.
13 km · about 25 min drive
scenic viewpoint
196 m summit lookout reached by a sealed road above central Wellington, giving a panorama of the harbour and Cook Strait.
13 km · about 25 min drive
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One of the Southern Hemisphere's largest collections with over 400 vehicles spanning a century of motoring.
28 km · about 30 min drive
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