From the air
Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora
A named lagoon in Christchurch. Also recorded as “Te Waihora”.
Where it sits
The pin sits near the water’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around 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 lagoon in Christchurch, as the open map records it.
The map also records “Te Waihora”, the page answers to all of them.
The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the lagoon, 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/lake-ellesmere-te-waihora.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.