# Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū / Banks Peninsula, a headland of Christchurch

A named headland on the city’s coast, off Pigeon Bay. Also recorded as “Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū” and “Banks Island”.

Suburb: [Pigeon Bay](https://www.chch.live/pigeon-bay)

## The ground under it

- [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay
- [Inside a kept landscape, Significant rural landscape](https://www.chch.live/landscape), the landscape schedule
- [The plan zones this ground Rural Banks Peninsula](https://www.chch.live/zones), RuBP
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.6](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 25 June 2011 · 1.1 km from the pin · 15 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.723389&lon=172.910213&radius=250

## Around it

- [Head of Bay](https://www.chch.live/coast/head-of-bay), coastal spot · 3.6 km
- [Duvauchelle Bay](https://www.chch.live/coast/duvauchelle-bay), coastal spot · 4.5 km
- [Barrys Bay](https://www.chch.live/coast/barrys-bay), coastal spot · 4.5 km
- [Ōtokotoko](https://www.chch.live/coast/otokotoko), coastal spot · 5.2 km


## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū / Banks Peninsula?**

A named headland on Christchurch’s coast, off [Pigeon Bay](https://www.chch.live/pigeon-bay), as the open map records it.

**What else is Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū / Banks Peninsula called?**

The map also records “Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū” and “Banks Island”, the page answers to all of them.

**Where exactly is Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū / Banks Peninsula?**

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/te-pataka-o-rakaihautu-banks-peninsula
The whole coast as data: https://www.chch.live/coast.geojson
The waterways inland: https://www.chch.live/river