The coast

Every named bay and headland the open map records inside the city, 53 bays and 57 headlands, from Lyttelton Harbour’s drowned crater to the peninsula’s outer points. The dual names are the map’s own.

Bays

Headlands

Unnamed beside them

What the record says

The headlands outnumber the bays, 57 against 53.
The record holds a Māori name for 61 of the 110, the dual names sit in the entries themselves.
The longest name on the roll is Estuary of the Heathcote and Avon Rivers / Ihutai, 49 characters for one bay.
100 of them carry a Wikipedia or Wikidata reference, most of the roll has an entry somewhere else too.

Where they sit

OpenStreetMap’s own pins, a bay’s pin sits on the water it names, a headland’s on the point. The waterways keep their own roll at /river.

The bays

Akaroa Harbour Akaroa bay Anchorage Bay bay Barrys Bay Taraouta bay Breeze Bay bay Childrens Bay Ōtāhuahua bay Decanter Bay bay Deep Gully Bay bay Diamond Harbour bay Duvauchelle Bay Kaitouna bay Estuary of the Heathcote and Avon Rivers / Ihutai Ihutai bay French Bay bay French Farm Bay Te Rautahi bay Glen Bay bay Governors Bay bay Hays Bay bay Head of Bay bay Head of the Bay bay Holmes Bay bay Inainatū / Pile Bay Inainatū bay Kaioruru / Church Bay Kaioruru bay Kaituna Lagoon Motumotuao bay Kawatea / Okains Bay Kawatea bay Le Bons Bay bay Little Akaloa Bay / Whakaroa Whakaroa bay Livingstone Bay Te Awa Toetoe bay Lucas Bay Whakakuru bay Lushington Bay bay Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō Whakaraupō bay Magazine Bay Baker's Bay bay Mat Wight Bay Tītoki bay Mechanics Bay bay Moncks Bay bay Motukauatiiti / Corsair Bay Motukauatiiti bay Motukauatirahi / Cass Bay Motukauatirahi bay North West Bay bay Ōhinepaka Bay Ōhinepaka bay Ōtokitoki / Gollans Bay Ōtokitoki bay Petit Carenage Bay Ōpakia bay Pigeon Bay Wakaroa bay Port Levy (Potiriwi) / Koukourarata Potiriwi bay Purau Bay Purau bay Rāpaki Bay Rāpaki bay Robinsons Bay Kākakaiau bay Takamatua Bay Takamatua bay Takapūneke / Red House Bay Takapūneke bay Tamahika bay Te Monene bay Te Pōhue / Camp Bay Te Pōhue bay Te Waipapa / Diamond Harbour Te Waipapa bay Te Wharau / Charteris Bay Te Wharau bay Tikao Bay Tikao bay Titoki / Little Tikao Bay Tikao bay Waitata / Little Port Cooper Waitata bay

The headlands

Akaroa Head headland Awaroa / Godley Head Awaroa headland Baleine Point headland Battery Point headland Black Rock Point headland Cape Three Points Ngāmautaurua headland Clay Point headland Dan Rogers Bluff headland Dyke Head headland East Head headland Elephant Point headland Gateway Point headland Giants Nose headland Goat Point headland Gordon Point headland Green Point headland Hammond Point Te Umu-Te-Rehua headland Katawa Head Katawa headland Long Reef Point headland Moepuku Point Moepuku headland Moki Point headland Naval Point / Te Nukutai o Tapoa Te Nukutai o Tapoa headland Nine Fathom Point headland North Head headland Officers Point headland Ohae headland Ōnawe headland Ōpukutahi headland Otohuao Head Otohuao headland Ōtokotoko headland Ōtūherekio headland Otutereinga headland Panau / Long Lookout Point Panau headland Pauaohinekotau Head Pauaohinekotau headland Pigeon Point headland Poutākoro Head Poutākoro headland Pukeiti Point Pukeiti headland Redcliffe Point headland Short Reef Point headland Snuffle Nose headland South Head headland Spyglass Point headland Steep Head headland Sticking Point headland Stoddart Point headland Sumner Head headland Tāpoa / Erskine Point Tāpoa headland Te Ahiteraiti headland Te Iringa-patu-pāraoa-o-Te-Rangitaurewa headland Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū / Banks Peninsula Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū headland Te Piaka / Adderley Head Te Piaka headland Te Ruahine Point Te Ruahine headland Teopopaka Point Teopopaka headland Timutimu Head Timutimu headland Wakaroa Point Wakaroa headland West Head headland Whitewash Head headland

Questions, answered briefly

How many named bays does Christchurch have?

53 named bays and 57 named headlands on the open map: Lyttelton Harbour’s drowned-crater bays, the peninsula’s outer coast, and Pegasus Bay’s long arc.

Why do the bays carry two names?

The dual names are the map’s own, the Māori name and the later English one recorded together. Cass Bay is Motukauatirahi, Corsair Bay is Motukauatiiti, Godley Head is Awaroa, each page lists every name the map knows.

Where does the coast map come from?

OpenStreetMap, every named bay and cape inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position for the feature, not a surveyed mark.

Are the rivers on this page?

No, the waterways keep their own roll at /river, and live levels are instruments at /rivers. This roll is the coast itself.

The record behind this

Named bays and capes on OpenStreetMap, inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position for the feature, not a surveyed mark; the dual names are the map’s own.

This page as markdown: /coast.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · /coast.json · every pin on the big map: /map?layer=coast · every roll, counted: /geography.