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{{about|the settlement in Otago|the Canterbury locality|Longbeach, New Zealand}}{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2024}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}}{{Location map }}Long Beach, known in Māori as WharauweraweraPlace names {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426090949weblink |date=26 April 2012 }} on Kāti Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki website, viewed 4 January 2012 or WhareweraweraWEB, Ngāi Tahu, Wharewerawera,weblink 2023-08-26, Kā Huru Manu, en, is a small coastal settlement in Otago, New Zealand comprising approximately 100 homes. Many of the sections were initially auctioned in October 1922 for a pound deposit. It is located within the city limits of Dunedin, and lies 15 kilometres northeast of the city centre, between Blueskin Bay and the mouth of the Otago Harbour. The small settlement of Pūrākaunui is located nearby.Long Beach township is near a sandy beach that stretches 2.4 kilometres between coastal rock formations. Wildlife in the beach and lagoon area includes blue penguins, seals, terns, pūkeko, herons, spoonbills, and ducks. Because the beach lies within a bay and is seldom affected by swells, it is a common swimming location. Rock-climbing cliffs and caves at the beach's western end also attract many visitors. The Mopanui Ecological Society, a Long Beach community group, has been extensively beautifying the area through mass planting of native flora in reserve areas.Some of the earliest traces of human settlement in the South Island are from nearby Kaikai Beach, just to the northwest of Long Beach.{{Citation | last =Anderson | first =Atholl |author-link=Atholl Anderson | year =1983 | title =When All the Moa-Ovens Grew Cold : nine centuries of changing fortune for the southern Maori | publication-place =Dunedin, NZ | publisher =Otago Heritage Books }}The 2006 movie Out of the Blue was primarily filmed at Long Beach.

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