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From the air

aerial view of Cape Three Points and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Cape Three Points

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

On the map as
headland
The suburb
Wainui
Māori name
Ngāmautaurua

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

3 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 1 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Road Blockage 117–147 Bossu Rd, Canterbury, French Farm 7582 · 17 February 2026
Damaged Road 117–147 Bossu Rd, Canterbury, French Farm 7582 · 4 May 2025
Water Leak 84 Bossu Road, Wainui · 24 March 2023

Questions, answered briefly

What is Cape Three Points?

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

What else is Cape Three Points called?

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

Where exactly is Cape Three Points?

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/cape-three-points.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.