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From the air

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

Anchorage Bay

A named bay on the city’s coast: off Wainui.

On the map as
bay
The suburb
Wainui

Where it sits

A bay’s pin sits on the water it names; the strong outline is the suburb behind it, the rest are its neighbours.

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

7 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 4 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Damaged Road 117–147 Bossu Rd, Canterbury, French Farm 7582 · 14 June 2025
Damaged Road 68 Bossu Road, Wainui · 22 March 2025
Fallen Tree 5WF3+7J Wainui · 2 October 2023
Water Leak 84 Bossu Road, Wainui · 24 March 2023

Questions, answered briefly

What is Anchorage Bay?

A named bay on Christchurch’s coast, off Wainui, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Anchorage Bay?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the bay, a bay’s pin sits on the water it names, a headland’s on the point. 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 bay or cape 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: /coast/anchorage-bay.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.