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From the air

aerial view of Corsair Bay and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Corsair Bay

A named beach on the city’s shore.

On the map as
beach

Where it sits

The pin sits on the beach’s ground; the strong outline is the suburb behind it, the rest are its neighbours.

Can you swim here

Corsair Bay/Motu-kauati-iti, the LAWA monitor that sits on its sand, its latest weekly sample graded it suitable for swimming. 3 more monitored spots sit on its sand.

A water-quality risk grade, not a live verdict, after heavy rain any spot can turn. LAWA (Land Air Water Aotearoa) files the Canterbury sites for Environment Canterbury; its page is the one to check on the day.

The ground under it

On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground Whakaraupō The rockfall survey counts 49 boulders within 500 m 18 came down · 3 wobble easy The nearest recorded shake: M3 27 February 2011 · ~700 m from the pin · 375 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

Corsair Bay Reserve community park · under 150 m Park Terrace Reserve community park · under 150 m Walk and bike track through Lyttelton track · 1.4 km from the pin Magazine Bay beach · ~350 m Cass Bay beach · ~750 m Ōtamahua / Quail Island beach · 2.1 km Whakamaru Beach beach · 2.6 km

Questions, answered briefly

What is Corsair Bay?

A named beach on Christchurch’s shore, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Corsair Bay?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the beach, the beach’s own ground, or its centreline’s middle. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named beach or island inside the city boundary (ODbL). The dual names are recorded as the map carries them; a pin is the mapper’s position, not a surveyed mark.

This page as markdown: /beach/corsair-bay.md · the whole shore as data: /beach.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=beach · the bays and headlands: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.