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From the air

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

Crocodile

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

On the map as
statue
The suburb
Akaroa
Made of
metal

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

Inside a recorded flood footprint 2008 Akaroa Basin Harbour Settlements Study Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground Whakaroa (Akaroa) Inside a kept landscape, Significant rural landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Rural Banks Peninsula RuBP The nearest recorded shake: M3 12 July 2011 · 2.4 km from the pin · 2 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

Jubilee Park botanic park · ~450 m Akaroa Boat Park community park · ~500 m Turkey monument · ~150 m Penguins monument · ~200 m Giraffes monument · ~500 m Pig monument · ~550 m

The reports nearby

2 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 1 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - General Rue Balguerie, Akaroa Canterbury 7520 · 15 May 2026
Water Pollution - Sediment 6892 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Takamatua · 28 June 2023

Questions, answered briefly

What is Crocodile?

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

Where does Crocodile 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/crocodile.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.