The Hataitai Bus Tunnel and the Mount Victoria Tunnel (State Highway 1) run beneath the ridge of Mount Victoria, connecting the central city with Wellington International Airport, Evans Bay and the Miramar Peninsula.

The Mount Victoria Lookout is situated within the Town Belt, and offers panoramic views of the greater Wellington area.

Wellington's Olympic Football Club was established by Father Ilias Economou for his parishioners.

About 65 per cent of Greek New Zealanders live in Wellington and in the decades following World War II they were concentrated in Mount Victoria.

The houses are on the north-western flank of the ridge above the southern end of the Wellington CBD, Te Aro.

Adjoining suburbs are Oriental Bay with Roseneath, Newtown to the south, Te Aro to the west beyond Kent Terrace and Hataitai on the far side of the ridge beyond the town belt.

What would seem to be residential Mount Victoria's frontage to the harbour is now technically a one-building-wide strip of Oriental Bay.

[8] Wellington College and Government House, official residence of New Zealand's Governor-General, are beyond the southern boundary to the south-east of cricket's Basin Reserve.

Mount Victoria was used twice as a location in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

[15] Wellington College is a boys' state secondary school for Year 9 to 13 students,[16] founded in 1867.