# Battery Point, a headland of Christchurch

A named headland on the city’s coast, off Lyttelton.

Suburb: [Lyttelton](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton)

From the air, an aerial view of Battery Point: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=coast-battery-point (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## On the register nearby

Listed places within about 300m, neighbours of the shore, not the feature itself unless the register says so.

- [Battery Point Battery](https://www.chch.live/place/412) · List 7553

## The ground under it

- [Inside the plan’s Rockfall Management Area 2 band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the slope-hazard watch
- [Inside a listed place’s setting](https://www.chch.live/heritage), Battery Point Battery
- [On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground](https://www.chch.live/cultural), Whakaraupō
- [The plan zones this ground Specific Purpose (Lyttelton Port)](https://www.chch.live/zones), SPLP
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.3](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 11 July 2011 · ~250 m from the pin · 351 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.603638&lon=172.741306&radius=250

## Around it

- [Walk and bike track through Sumner](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-187-sumner), track · ~850 m
- [Ōtokitoki / Gollans Bay](https://www.chch.live/coast/otokitoki-gollans-bay), coastal spot · ~500 m
- [Sticking Point](https://www.chch.live/coast/sticking-point), coastal spot · ~1000 m
- [Officers Point](https://www.chch.live/coast/officers-point), coastal spot · 2.0 km
- [Livingstone Bay](https://www.chch.live/coast/livingstone-bay), coastal spot · 2.1 km


## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Battery Point?**

A named headland on Christchurch’s coast, off [Lyttelton](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton), as the open map records it.

**What’s on the register near Battery Point?**

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

**Where exactly is Battery Point?**

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.


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The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named bay or cape inside the city boundary (ODbL). A bay’s pin sits on the water it names; the dual names are recorded as the map carries them.
The page: https://www.chch.live/coast/battery-point
The whole coast as data: https://www.chch.live/coast.geojson
The waterways inland: https://www.chch.live/river