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Rapanui Bush plaque

A plaque at Rapanui Bush, standing in Sumner. The surveyor filed a note, not words: “illegible – dual plaques on boulder”.

The ground
Rapanui Bush
The suburb
Sumner
The year
1998, the register’s commission
Rides on
rock
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Rapanui Bush

The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.

Where it stands

The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

In the archive

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

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

116 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Rubbish & dumping and Graffiti & vandalism, 96 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Dumped Rubbish Godley Head Rd · 5 October 2026
Dumped Rubbish 191 Evans Pass Road, Sumner · 25 September 2026
Litter 83–171 Sumner Rd · 14 September 2026
Damaged Street Sign Godley Head Rd · 10 August 2026
Abandoned Vehicle 83–171 Sumner Rd · 25 May 2026
Poles and Signage - General Godley Head Rd · 5 May 2026
Damaged Road 194–200 Evans Pass Rd · 14 April 2026
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure 83–171 Sumner Rd · 22 March 2026
Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 26 February 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Rapanui Bush in Sumner, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The surveyor filed a note, not the words themselves, “illegible – dual plaques on boulder”. The plaque still earns its page: it stands, the ground is named, and the record’s pin is real.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 1998. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.

This page as markdown: /plaque/86092-rapanui-bush.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.