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From the air

aerial view of Awaroa / Godley Head and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Awaroa / Godley Head

A named headland on the city’s coast: off Sumner. Also recorded as “Awaroa”.

On the map as
headland
The suburb
Sumner

Where it sits

A headland’s pin sits on the point; 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

17 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 14 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure CR74+5Q, Sumner · 12 August 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure CR74+5Q, Sumner · 12 August 2026
Animal - General Canterbury · 6 May 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure CR74+5Q, Sumner · 13 January 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Canterbury · 29 December 2025
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art CR74+5Q, Sumner · 30 December 2024
Pavement - Damaged Godley Head Loop Trail · 8 July 2024
Park - General Request CR74+5Q, Sumner · 17 September 2023
Park - General Request CR74+5Q, Sumner · 29 January 2023
Parks Godley Head Road · 8 April 2022
Parks Godley Head Road · 2 April 2022

Questions, answered briefly

What is Awaroa / Godley Head?

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

What else is Awaroa / Godley Head called?

The map also records “Awaroa”, the page answers to all of them.

Where exactly is Awaroa / Godley Head?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the headland, 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/awaroa-godley-head.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.