From the air
Matuku-takotako / Sumner Beach
A named beach on the city’s shore, at Sumner. Also recorded as “Matuku-takotako”.
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
Sumner Beach, the LAWA monitor that sits on its sand, LAWA’s long-term grade for it is low risk. 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.
On the register nearby
Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the shore, not the feature itself unless the register says so.
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
The reports nearby
1,056 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Water & drains, 798 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Hazard, vehicle
Overgrown Vegetation
Rubbish and Bins - General
General Request
Rubbish and Bins - General
Rubbish and Bins - General
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Water Leak
Pavement - Damaged
Hazard, vehicle
Public Toilet
Facility - General RequestQuestions, answered briefly
A named beach on Christchurch’s shore, at Sumner, as the open map records it.
The map also records “Matuku-takotako”, the page answers to all of them.
2 listed places within 300m of the pin, each opens its own record from this page.
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/matuku-takotako-sumner-beach.md · the whole shore as data: /beach.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=beach · the bays and headlands: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.