Colville Channel

channel between Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
Place strait Q655693
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Colville Channel

Summary

Colville Channel is a strait[1]. It draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (strait category, ranking #111 of 402).[2]

Key Facts

  • Colville Channel is located in Auckland Region[3].
  • Colville Channel is located in Thames-Coromandel District[4].
  • Colville Channel is in the country of New Zealand[5].
  • Colville Channel's image is recorded as Sandy Bay.png[6].
  • Colville Channel's instance of is recorded as strait[7].
  • Colville Channel's instance of is recorded as sound[8].
  • Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross is named after Colville Channel[9].
  • Colville Channel's Commons category is recorded as Colville Channel[10].
  • Colville Channel's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -36.388833, 'lon': 175.424528}[11].
  • Colville Channel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04d8dx[12].
  • Colville Channel's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0519960[13].
  • Colville Channel's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6233539[14].
  • Colville Channel's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2192179[15].
  • Colville Channel's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Colville Channel'}[16].
  • Colville Channel's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -1508472[17].
  • Colville Channel's New Zealand Gazetteer place ID is recorded as 18795[18].
  • Colville Channel's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as colville-channel[19].

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Geography

Colville Channel is in the country of New Zealand[5]. Located in include Auckland Region[3], a region of New Zealand[20], in New Zealand[21] and Thames-Coromandel District[4], a district of New Zealand[22], in New Zealand[23], founded in 1975[24].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include strait[7] and sound[8].

History and Context

Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross is named after Colville Channel[9].

Why It Matters

Colville Channel draws 8 Wikipedia views per month (strait category, ranking #111 of 402).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . Q1194038. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . teara.govt.nz. teara.govt.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . gazetteer.linz.govt.nz. gazetteer.linz.govt.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Colville Channel. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/colville-channel
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_colville-channel_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Colville Channel}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/colville-channel}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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