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The settlement of Governors Bay is located on Banks Peninsula near the head of Lyttelton Harbour. [3] [better source needed] It is connected via Governors Bay Road to Lyttelton, [4] via Dyers Pass Road over the Port Hills to the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere, and via Main Road to the south side of the harbour basin and Banks Peninsula.
According to tradition the first Māori settlers of the area now known as Banks Peninsula were the Waitaha led by their founding ancestor Rākaihautū.The Māori name for the peninsula is Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū (The Storehouse of Rākaihautū) in recognition of his deeds and the abundance of mahinga kai (foods of the forests, sea, rivers and skies).
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Akaroa Harbour is part of Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. [2] The harbour enters from the southern coast of the peninsula, heading in a predominantly northerly direction. It is one of two major inlets in Banks Peninsula, on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand; the other is Lyttelton Harbour on the northern coast.
A model of the Banks Peninsula (vertically exaggerated); the Port Hills are the volcanic ridge on the left. The volcano is one of two from which Banks Peninsula was originally formed 12 million years ago. [2] The area was first populated by Māori during the 14th century. During early European settlement some 500 years later the Port Hills ...
Port Levy (Māori: Koukourarata) is a long, sheltered bay and settlement on Banks Peninsula in Canterbury, New Zealand. The current population is under 100, but in the mid-19th century it was the largest Māori settlement in Canterbury with a population of about 400 people. [1]
The Banks Peninsula Volcano is an extinct volcanic complex to the east of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island. [2] While the volcano is highly eroded it still forms the majority of Banks Peninsula with a highest point of 919 m (3,015 ft). [ 3 ]
Before the 2023 census, the statistical area was called Eastern Bays-Banks Peninsula, with a larger boundary including Purau, covering 368.25 km 2 (142.18 sq mi). [7] Eastern Bays-Banks Peninsula had a population of 615 at the 2018 New Zealand census , a decrease of 39 people (−6.0%) since the 2013 census , and an increase of 9 people (1.5% ...