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From the air

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

Tawhiri-Matea

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

On the map as
sculpture
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

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay Inside a kept landscape, Significant rural landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Open Space Community Parks OCP The nearest recorded shake: M3.5 1 October 2010 · 3.9 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

Akaroa Heritage Park the community park it’s inside Crocodile monument · 2.4 km Turkey monument · 2.5 km Statue of Charles Meryon monument · 2.5 km Penguins monument · 2.5 km

The reports nearby

2 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks, 2 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Overgrown Vegetation Akaroa Heritage Park 280 Long Bay Road, Akaroa 7583 · 17 May 2025
Parks 280 Long Bay Rd, Akaroa · 31 January 2017

Questions, answered briefly

What is Tawhiri-Matea?

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

Where does Tawhiri-Matea 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/tawhiri-matea.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.