Cook Strait Map
The Cook Strait is a strait bordered by New Zealand. This map shows the Cook Strait highlighted in blue on shaded relief, with the surrounding coasts, rivers, borders and major cities.
How to read this map
Countries with a coast on the Cook Strait: New Zealand.
The blue outline marks the Cook Strait as mapped by Natural Earth. Towns and cities on the map include Wellington, Lower Hutt, Palmerston North, Nelson, Porirua, Upper Hutt, Blenheim and Paraparaumu.
Greens show lower elevations; tan and brown show higher land, with pale tones toward the highest terrain. Shadows emphasize the slopes, and vertical relief is exaggerated so landforms are easier to read. Dashed lines show country borders.
The relief uses Terrain Tiles (SRTM, GMTED2010 and ETOPO1 elevation data). Rivers, lakes, borders and the outline of the Cook Strait come from Natural Earth, and the figures on this page from Wikidata. Natural Earth draws features at a small scale, so the outline is a guide to where the Cook Strait is, not a surveyed boundary.
Blank physical map
The blank version keeps the mapped features and removes the place labels. Download it for a geography worksheet or practice identifying the features.
Cook Strait facts
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Inflows | Awatere River |
| Coastal countries | New Zealand |
Data sources and license
- Natural Earth (public-domain geography): Public domain.
- Terrain Tiles / Mapzen (SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1): Open elevation data; source attribution retained.
- Wikidata (lengths, areas, countries and other facts): CC0 1.0.
Map design and rendered images: Atlas of Maps, CC BY 4.0. Source databases retain their own licenses; the map license does not replace them.
Maps of the coastal countries: New Zealand. Compare with the map of the five oceans.
Frequently asked questions
Which countries border the Cook Strait?
New Zealand.
Can I download a blank map of the Cook Strait?
Yes. The blank version keeps the relief, rivers and borders and the highlighted sea but removes the place names. Both versions are free to download as PNG and as an A4 PDF.
Use this map
You can download, print and share this map for free, in class, in school projects, in presentations and on websites, as long as you credit the source: Cook Strait Map · Atlas of Maps (atlasofmaps.com), license CC BY 4.0.
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