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From the air

aerial view of Naughty Boys Island and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Naughty Boys Island

A named wetland in Christchurch, at Bexley.

On the map as
wetland
The suburb
Bexley

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

11 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 9 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Dumped Rubbish Blighs Garden, Estuary Channel, New Brightin Canterbury 8061 · 1 July 2024
Graffiti 9 Otakaro Place, Bexley · 11 October 2023
Rubbish/Recycling Bexley · 25 January 2022
Parks 25, Otakaro Place, Bexley · 23 December 2020
Graffiti 291 Bexley Road, Bexley · 17 July 2019
Rubbish/Recycling Bexley · 7 January 2016
Rubbish/Recycling 23, Otakaro Place, Bexley · 1 October 2015

Questions, answered briefly

What is Naughty Boys Island?

A named wetland in Christchurch, at Bexley, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Naughty Boys Island?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the wetland, 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/naughty-boys-island.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.