Mākara Beach


The Mākara Beach locality, previously spelled Makara Beach, is a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. The Wellington City Council regards it as a separate suburb to Mākara.
Mākara Beach is a seaside village. It has a parking area for beach visitors. The village proposes to adjust to climate change and severe weather events.
There is a Department of Conservation-managed 6 km walkway at the beach which follows the coast before climbing gradually to the cliff tops.
Mākara Beach was hit by Cyclone Gita in 2018 and the community and local council have put a plan in place to reduce the effects of climate change since.
Mākara Beach had a resident community of fishermen in the 19th and 20th century, using solid clinker-built dinghies. Fisherman Leopold Haupois, known as French Louis, had arrived from Normandy in France in 1875; in the 1930s Lady Bledisloe the wife of the Governor-General used to visit French Louis to practise her French conversation.