From the air
Pigeon Bay
A named bay on the city’s coast: off Pigeon Bay. Also recorded as “Wakaroa”.
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
Questions, answered briefly
A named bay on Christchurch’s coast, off Pigeon Bay, as the open map records it.
The map also records “Wakaroa”, the page answers to all of them.
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/pigeon-bay.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.