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Story: Wellington region

Wellington landforms

  • Place names

    Place names
  • Districts

    Districts
  • Highways

    Highways
  • Landforms

    Landforms
  • Vegetation

    Vegetation

Most of Wellington is hilly and mountainous. The main areas of flat land are the Hutt Valley basins and the Kāpiti coastal plain.

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Chris Maclean, Wellington region – Creation stories and landscape, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/13176/wellington-landforms (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Maclean, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.