Cooks Beach

Cooks Beach (Pukaki)
Cooks Bay
Cooks Bay
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Coordinates: 36°50′17″S 175°44′20″E / 36.838°S 175.739°E / -36.838; 175.739
CountryNew Zealand
RegionWaikato
DistrictThames-Coromandel District
WardMercury Bay ward
Community BoardMercury Bay Community
Electorates
Government
 • CouncilThames-Coromandel District Council
Area
 • Total
2.69 km2 (1.04 sq mi)
Population
 (June 2024)[2]
 • Total
620
 • Density230/km2 (600/sq mi)

Cooks Beach (Pukaki) is a town on a three-kilometre white-sand beach on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand. To its north is Cooks Bay, and beyond that is Mercury Bay. To the east is the locality of Hahei and the tourist attraction of Cathedral Cove. Roads to the south connect to SH 25. On the northwest, Shakespeare Cliff is a scenic reserve with a lookout point.[3][4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Aotearoa Data Explorer". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 26 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Shakespeare Cliff Reserve & Headland" (PDF). Thames-Coromandel District Council. September 2015.
  4. ^ "Cooks Beach". Hahei Business Association. Retrieved 1 October 2020.