Detourmap
Places worth the detour in New Zealand
Detourmap lists 373 places in New Zealand, across 2 kinds of detour; nature & landscapes are the largest group (346). Best known: Aoraki / Mount Cook. 271 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 373
- Oldest here
- Lake Rotorua / Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe 138,000 years ago
- Little known
- 271 of 373
- City pages
- 3
By region
5 first-level divisions of New Zealand have enough places for a page of their own.
By city
3 cities in New Zealand have enough places for a page of their own.
Nature & landscapes in New Zealand 346
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3.Stewart Island/Rakiura
Nature · Renowned
New Zealand's third largest island, 30 km south of the South Island
Archaeological & historic sites in New Zealand 27
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1.Waitakere City
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
Former territorial authority district of New Zealand
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2.Christ Church Cathedral
Archaeological · 19th century · Notable
Ruins of the former Christ Church Cathedral, New Zealand
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in New Zealand?
Aoraki / Mount Cook. Mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in New Zealand?
373: 346 nature & landscapes and 27 archaeological & historic sites. 271 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in New Zealand?
Lake Rotorua / Te Rotorua nui ā Kahumatamomoe, dated to 138,000 years ago. 35 of the 373 places here carry a founding date at all, and 7 of those predate the year 1000.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.