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From the air

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

Britomart monument

A obelisk on the city’s public ground: standing in Akaroa.

On the map as
obelisk
The suburb
Akaroa

Where it stands

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position, the strong outline is the suburb the map puts it in, 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

52 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 36 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Overgrown Vegetation Beach road Akaroa Near The Steps To The Monument, Akkaroa Northland 7520 · 1 September 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 293–295 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520 · 27 July 2026
Trees - General 297–301 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520 · 28 June 2026
Roads - General Beach Road (Beyond The Lighthouse), Akaroa Canterbury New Zealand · 11 March 2026
Overgrown Vegetation 297–301 Beach Rd, Canterbury, Akaroa 7520 · 12 November 2025
Water Leak 9 Stanley Place, Akaroa · 10 July 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is Britomart monument?

A obelisk in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Akaroa.

Where does Britomart monument stand?

In Akaroa, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps no listed place within 300m of it.

Is the pin on the map exact?

It’s OpenStreetMap’s position, a surveyed-looking point, but a volunteer map’s one. Nearby ground and register places are neighbours, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the tags are OpenStreetMap’s, a named node or way tagged memorial or artwork inside the city boundary (ODbL). The maker, material and date fields are the mapper’s own, kept verbatim; a listing is a lead, not a catalogue record.

This page as markdown: /memorial/britomart-monument.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.