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From the air

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

Takapūneke / Red House Bay

A named bay on the city’s coast: off Akaroa. Also recorded as “Takapūneke”.

On the map as
bay
The suburb
Akaroa

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

27 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 24 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Trees - General 297–301 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520 · 28 June 2026
Roads - General Beach Road (Beyond The Lighthouse), Akaroa Canterbury New Zealand · 11 March 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 297–301 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520 · 12 November 2025
Sewer General 283 Beach Road, Akaroa · 8 January 2024

Questions, answered briefly

What is Takapūneke / Red House Bay?

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

What else is Takapūneke / Red House Bay called?

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

Where exactly is Takapūneke / Red House 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/takapuneke-red-house-bay.md · the whole coast as data: /coast.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=coast · the waterways inland: /river · every roll, counted: /geography.