Seatoun
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| Suburb: | Seatoun |
| City: | Wellington |
| Island: | North Island |
| Surrounded by: | |
| to the north | Miramar, Worser Bay |
| to the east | Wellington Harbour heads |
| to the south | Breaker Bay, Cook Strait |
| to the west | Strathmore Park |
Seatoun is a suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It is situated on the east coast of the Miramar Peninsula, close to the entrance to Wellington Harbour (formerly Port Nicholson), some seven kilometres southeast of the CBD. The suburb sits on an exposed promontory close to Barrett Reef, a dangerous area of rocky shallows upon which many ships have foundered, most notably the Inter-island ferry Wahine in 1968.
The suburb was first settled in 1889, and takes its name from a place in Forfarshire, Scotland connected with the family history of James Coutts Crawford, the suburb's founder.
