# Shelly Cove, a beach of Christchurch A named beach on the city’s shore. From the air, an aerial view of Shelly Cove: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=beach-shelly-cove (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0). ## Can you swim here [Diamond Harbour/Te Waipapa](https://www.lawa.org.nz/explore-data/canterbury-region/swimming/diamond-harbour-beach/swimsite), the LAWA monitor that is 1.4 km away, its latest weekly sample graded it unsuitable for swimming. *A water-quality risk grade, not a live verdict, after heavy rain any spot can turn. LAWA's 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. - [Ripapa Island/ Fort Jervois and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/334) · List 5306 ## The ground under it - [On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground](https://www.chch.live/cultural), Purau - [The nearest recorded shake: M3](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 20 June 2011 · ~200 m from the pin · 189 logged within 5 km The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.621942&lon=172.754348&radius=250 ## Around it - [Ripapa Island](https://www.chch.live/beach/ripapa-island), beach · ~250 m - [Magazine Bay](https://www.chch.live/beach/magazine-bay), beach · 4.3 km - [Taylor's Mistake Beach](https://www.chch.live/beach/taylors-mistake-beach), beach · 4.7 km - [Corsair Bay](https://www.chch.live/beach/corsair-bay), beach · 4.7 km ## Questions, answered briefly **What is Shelly Cove?** A named beach on Christchurch’s shore, as the open map records it. **What’s on the register near Shelly Cove?** 1 listed place within 300m of the pin, each opens its own record from this page. **Where exactly is Shelly Cove?** 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 position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named beach or island inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position for the feature; the dual names are recorded as the map carries them. The page: https://www.chch.live/beach/shelly-cove The whole shore as data: https://www.chch.live/beach.geojson The bays and headlands: https://www.chch.live/coast