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From the air

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

Horomaka Island

A named island on the city’s shore, at Port Levy. Also recorded as “Horomaka”.

On the map as
island
The suburb
Port Levy

Where it sits

The pin sits near the island’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb behind it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

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

Around it

Questions, answered briefly

What is Horomaka Island?

A named island on Christchurch’s shore, at Port Levy, as the open map records it.

What else is Horomaka Island called?

The map also records “Horomaka”, the page answers to all of them.

Where exactly is Horomaka Island?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the island, roughly the island’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/horomaka-island.md · the whole shore as data: /beach.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=beach · the bays and headlands: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.