# Diamond Harbour Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

A cemetery of the city, lying in Diamond Harbour, the ground as the open map draws it.

Dated: 2002

Suburb: [Diamond Harbour](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour)

From the air, an aerial view of Diamond Harbour Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-diamond-harbour-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## On the register nearby

- [Dwelling and Setting, Stoddart's Cottage](https://www.chch.live/place/323), 18 Purau Avenue · List 3088

## The register of plots

The council’s cemetery register files 436 plots in this ground, 201 marked occupied.
Filed burials run 1984 to 2026.

Find a plot by surname on the page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/diamond-harbour-cemetery

## The ground under it

- [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay
- [On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground](https://www.chch.live/cultural), Purau
- [The plan zones this ground Specific Purpose (Cemetery)](https://www.chch.live/zones), SPC
- [The rockfall survey counts 1 boulders within 500 m](https://www.chch.live/boulders), 0 came down
- [The nearest recorded shake: M4.1](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 12 March 2011 · ~250 m from the pin · 169 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.623784&lon=172.741439&radius=250

## Around it

- [Diamond Harbour Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-83), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 91 m away
- [Stoddart Point Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1274-stoddart-point-reserve), the community park it’s inside
- [Coastal Cliff Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1346-coastal-cliff-reserve), community park · ~300 m
- [Lyttelton Catholic and Public Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-catholic-and-public-cemetery), cemetery · 2.7 km
- [Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-anglican-cemetery), cemetery · 3.2 km
- [Leper graves](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/leper-graves), cemetery · 4.3 km
- [Rapaki Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rapaki-cemetery), cemetery · 5.0 km


## The reports nearby
175 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place.
- [Public Toilet](https://www.chch.live/report/9059790), Stoddards Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand
- [Accessibility](https://www.chch.live/report/9022309), [2D Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/2d-waipapa-avenue)
- [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/9001851), [20B Purau Avenue, Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/20b-purau-avenue)
- [Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet](https://www.chch.live/report/8855941), [2D Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/2d-waipapa-avenue)
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8772782), [20A Purau Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/20a-purau-avenue)
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8763648), [2D Waipapa Ave, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/2d-waipapa-avenue)
- [Public Toilet](https://www.chch.live/report/8758128), [2D Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/2d-waipapa-avenue)
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8491915), Stoddards Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8104882), [7 Waipapa Ave, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/7-waipapa-avenue)
- [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/7988835), [20B Purau Avenue, Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/20b-purau-avenue)
- [Water Fountain](https://www.chch.live/report/7922259), Stoddards Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand
- [Fallen Tree](https://www.chch.live/report/7761010), [2D Waipapa Ave, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/diamond-harbour/2d-waipapa-avenue)

## Questions, answered briefly

**Where is Diamond Harbour Cemetery?**

In Diamond Harbour, Christchurch, the map draws its grounds as an outline, inside the city boundary.

**What kind of cemetery is Diamond Harbour Cemetery?**

The map tags it none, a mapper’s tag, not the council’s register.

**What’s on the register near Diamond Harbour Cemetery?**

1 listed place within 300m, each opens its own record from this page.

**Does this page list who is buried there?**

Partly, the council’s register files 436 plots in this ground, and burials seventy years gone or older can be found by surname on this page. Newer burials are counted but never named here; the council’s own cemetery search holds the whole register.


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The ground is OpenStreetMap’s, a named node or way tagged landuse=cemetery inside the city boundary (ODbL). The ground is the map’s; the graves are the council’s, the register of plots is their Green Assets layer (gmCemeteryPlot), names included only where the death is seventy years gone or more.
The page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/diamond-harbour-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial
