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From the air

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

Brooklands Lagoon

A named lake in Christchurch, at Brooklands. Also recorded as “Te Riu-o-Te-Aika-Kawa”.

On the map as
lake
The suburb
Brooklands

Where it sits

The pin sits near the water’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

Can you swim here

Spencerville Beach at Surf Club, the LAWA monitor that is ~650 m away, LAWA’s long-term grade for it is low risk.

A water-quality risk grade, not a live verdict, after heavy rain any spot can turn. LAWA (Land Air Water Aotearoa) files the Canterbury sites for Environment Canterbury; its page is the one to check on the day.

The ground under it

The September 2010 survey drew liquefaction over this point mapped ground failure, a footprint, not a finding On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground Te Riu o Te Aika Kawa On a plan-scheduled ecology site Brooklands Lagoon Inside a kept landscape, ONC32.0 - Area of Outstanding Natural Character in the Coastal Environment the landscape schedule The nearest recorded shake: M3.4 18 September 2010 · 2.6 km from the pin · 8 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

Seafield Park regional park · ~300 m Brooklands Spit regional park · ~350 m Ōtukaikino Wetland lake · 5.7 km Bottle Lake lake · 6.5 km Redwood Dancing Springs lake · 9.2 km Horseshoe Lake lake · 10.2 km

Questions, answered briefly

What is Brooklands Lagoon?

A named lake in Christchurch, at Brooklands, as the open map records it.

What else is Brooklands Lagoon called?

The map also records “Te Riu-o-Te-Aika-Kawa”, the page answers to all of them.

Where exactly is Brooklands Lagoon?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the lake, roughly the water’s middle. 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 lake, lagoon, wetland or spring 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: /lake/brooklands-lagoon.md · the whole roll as data: /lakes.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=lakes · the waterways: /river · the coast: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.