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From the air

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

Matuku Lakes

A named reservoir in Christchurch, at Ferrymead. Also recorded as “Matuku”.

On the map as
reservoir
The suburb
Ferrymead

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

The reports nearby

112 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Everything else, 97 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Questions, answered briefly

What is Matuku Lakes?

A named reservoir in Christchurch, at Ferrymead, as the open map records it.

What else is Matuku Lakes called?

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

Where exactly is Matuku Lakes?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the reservoir, 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/matuku-lakes.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.