From the air
Battery Point
A named headland on the city’s coast: off Lyttelton.
Where it sits
A headland’s pin sits on the point; the strong outline is the suburb behind it, the rest are its neighbours.
On the register nearby
Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the shore, not the feature itself unless the register says so.
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
Questions, answered briefly
A named headland on Christchurch’s coast, off Lyttelton, as the open map records it.
1 listed place within 300m of the pin, each opens its own record from this page.
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/battery-point.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.