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From the air

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

Head of Bay

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

On the map as
bay
The suburb
Duvauchelle

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

11 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Animals & pests, 8 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Animal - General Onawe Track 50 Onawe Flat Road, Duvauchelle 7581 · 6 December 2023
Animal - General Onawe Track 50 Onawe Flat Road, Duvauchelle 7581 · 8 April 2023
Roading/Streets 2–62, Onawe Flat Road, Duvauchelle · 1 May 2021
Roading/Streets Christchurch-Akaroa Road, Duvauchelle · 10 February 2019
Roading/Streets Christchurch-Akaroa Road, Duvauchelle · 17 December 2018

Questions, answered briefly

What is Head of Bay?

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

Where exactly is Head of 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/head-of-bay.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.