Marine Drive
Three kilometres of curved seafront whose streetlights earned it the name the Queen's Necklace.
- Where
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 18.9430, 72.8230
Get the Marine Drive stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Marine Drive. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Maharashtra volume with your photos and a note.
Near Marine Drive
Taraporewala Aquarium 0.8 km
India's oldest aquarium, on Marine Drive, with a glass tunnel you walk through.
Mumba Devi Temple 1.1 km
The goddess the city is named for, moved twice and now in a lane off Zaveri Bazaar.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus 1.1 km
Victorian Gothic married to Mughal detail, opened in 1888, and still one of the busiest stations in the country.
Jama Masjid, Mumbai 1.2 km
The city's principal mosque, built over a tank that is still under the prayer hall.
Crawford Market 1.2 km
Opened in 1869, with friezes over the entrance carved by Rudyard Kipling's father, who taught art in the city.
Girgaum Chowpatty 1.5 km
The city beach at the end of Marine Drive, where Ganpati goes into the sea every September and the bhelpuri stalls never close.
Asiatic Society of Mumbai 1.8 km
The Town Hall of 1833 with thirty Doric columns and one of two copies of the Divine Comedy's first edition.
Chor Bazaar 2.0 km
A century and a half of secondhand everything, from ship fittings to gramophone horns, off Mohammed Ali Road.
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Questions
Where is Marine Drive?
Marine Drive is in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Taraporewala Aquarium (0.8 km), Mumba Devi Temple (1.1 km), Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (1.1 km).
How do I get the Marine Drive stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Marine Drive and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Maharashtra volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Marine Drive before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Maharashtra volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
Collect your first stamp.
LOQAH is free on iPhone and Android, in India and 20 more countries, with more countries on the way. Stand at a place, collect its stamp, and keep every trip in a passport that grows.