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Tourism contributed $57 million to total GDP in Kaikoura District in 2020, and was the top overall category, contributing 24.8% of district GDP. [36] In 2023, tourism provided 27.6% of jobs in Kaikōura District in 2023, with accommodation and food services representing another 18.5%.
Wave cut platform formation. The Kaikōura Peninsula is located on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.Geologically the peninsula consists of an asymmetrical anticline bounded on either side by two synclines, the axis of which strikes northeast–southwest. [3]
From 1877, Kaikōura was governed by Kaikoura County. [5] The county's boundary was adjusted northwards in 1940 to take over most of the East Coast Riding of Awatere County. There were also desires for land from Cheviot County to transfer to Kaikoura County, but the petition lapsed.
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, a Category 2 Historic Place in Kaikōura. The Kaikōura District is a territorial authority of New Zealand located along the eastern coast of the South Island in northern Canterbury. The region was historically an important Māori settlement area from the earliest period of inhabitation. European inhabitation began in the 1840s with the establishment of whaling ...
The Clarence River (Māori: Waiau Toa; officially Waiau Toa / Clarence River) is a major river which flows through the Kaikōura Ranges in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island.
Formed along New Zealand's Marlborough Fault System, they can be seen as the northernmost extension of the Southern Alps in the South Island. Named the Looker-on mountains, by Captain James Cook, they take their name from the town of Kaikōura at the southern extreme of the more eastern range, the Seaward Kaikōuras.
A map showing population density in the Canterbury Region at the 2023 census. Canterbury (Māori: Waitaha) is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island.
Kaikōura Civic Centre 2021. The council was established in 1989, directly replacing the Kaikoura County Council established in 1876. [2]In 2020, the council had 40 staff, including 8 earning more than $100,000.