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From the air

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

Magazine Bay

A named beach on the city’s shore.

On the map as
beach
Register places near it
3

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 is ~300 m away, its latest weekly sample graded it suitable for swimming. 2 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.

On the register nearby

Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the shore, not the feature itself unless the register says so.

Magazine and Setting List 7234 Erskine Point Gun Emplacement and Setting Dwelling and Setting, Omarama 53 Cressy Terrace

The ground under it

On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground Whakaraupō The rockfall survey counts 10 boulders within 500 m 7 came down The nearest recorded shake: M3 27 February 2011 · ~450 m from the pin · 338 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

Park Terrace Reserve community park · under 150 m Corsair Bay Reserve community park · ~250 m Walk and bike track through Lyttelton track · 1.3 km from the pin Corsair Bay beach · ~350 m Cass Bay beach · 1.1 km Ōtamahua / Quail Island beach · 2.0 km Whakamaru Beach beach · 2.4 km

Questions, answered briefly

What is Magazine Bay?

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

What’s on the register near Magazine Bay?

3 listed places within 300m of the pin, each opens its own record from this page.

Where exactly is Magazine 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/magazine-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.