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Seatoun is a southern suburb of Wellington
Wellington

Wellington is the Capital of New Zealand, situated at the southwestern tip of the North Island between






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Seatoun is a southern suburb of Wellington
Wellington

Wellington is the Capital of New Zealand, situated at the southwestern tip of the North Island between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. The Wellington Urban Area is the major population centre of the southern North Island and ranks as New Zealand's third most populous Urban areas of New Zealand with residents....
, the capital city
Capital City

Capital City was a television show produced by Euston Films which focused on the lives of investment bankers in London living and working on the corporate trading floor for the fictional international bank Shane-Longman....
 of New Zealand
New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
. It is situated on the east coast of the Miramar Peninsula
Miramar Peninsula

The Miramar Peninsula is at the southeastern end of the city of Wellington, New Zealand. It contains the suburbs of Miramar, New Zealand, Maupuia, Strathmore and Seatoun....
, close to the entrance to Wellington Harbour
Wellington Harbour

Wellington Harbour is the large natural harbour on the southern tip of New Zealand's North Island. New Zealand's capital, Wellington, is located on the western side of Wellington Harbour....
 (formerly Port Nicholson), some seven kilometres southeast of the CBD. The suburb sits on an exposed promontory close to Barrett Reef
Barrett Reef

The cluster of rocks that is Barrett Reef is one of the most treacherous reefs in New Zealand.It lies on the western side of the entrance of Wellington Harbour, on the approaches to the city of Wellington, at coordinates ....
, a dangerous area of rocky shallows upon which many ships have foundered, most notably the Inter-island ferry Wahine
Wahine disaster

The Wahine disaster occurred on 10 April 1968 when the TEV Wahine, a New Zealand inter-island ferry of the Union Company, foundered on Barrett Reef at the entrance to Wellington Harbour and capsized near Steeple Rock....
 in 1968.

The suburb was first settled in 1889, and takes its name from a place in Forfarshire, Scotland
Scotland

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 connected with the family history of James Coutts Crawford, the suburb's founder.