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From the air

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

World Peace Bell

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

On the map as
sculpture
The suburb
Christchurch Central
Register places near it
3

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.

On the register nearby

Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the monument, not the monument itself unless the register says so.

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

275 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 219 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Hazard, vehicle 6 Riccarton Ave · 13 October 2026
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet Canterbury · 11 October 2026
Park - General Request New Zealand Icon Garden, Water Garden Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 29 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park New Zealand Icon Garden, Water Garden Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 29 September 2026
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art Hagley Park South 57 Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 17 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park 3410435, Christchurch Central City · 13 September 2026
Animal - Domestic Canterbury · 10 September 2026
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art Hagley Park South 57 Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 24 August 2026
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet Riccarton Ave (Hospital), Christchurch Central City · 14 August 2026
Roads - General Hagley Park South 57 Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City · 13 August 2026
Abandoned Vehicle Canterbury · 26 July 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is World Peace Bell?

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

Where does World Peace Bell stand?

In Christchurch Central, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps 3 places 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/world-peace-bell.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.