# Big Rock, a cliff of Christchurch

A named cliff in Christchurch.

From the air, an aerial view of Big Rock: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=rock-big-rock (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## The ground under it

- [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay
- [On a plan-scheduled ecology site](https://www.chch.live/ecology), identified in the schedule
- [Inside a kept landscape, Significant rural landscape](https://www.chch.live/landscape), the landscape schedule
- [The plan zones this ground Rural Banks Peninsula](https://www.chch.live/zones), RuBP
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.1](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 14 June 2011 · 1.7 km from the pin · 4 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.672033&lon=172.71311&radius=250

## Around it

- [Biggish rock](https://www.chch.live/rock/biggish-rock), rock · ~650 m
- [Crystal Clearlight](https://www.chch.live/rock/crystal-clearlight), rock · 1.7 km
- [Kereru Crag](https://www.chch.live/rock/kereru-crag), rock · 2.0 km
- [Fantasy Factory](https://www.chch.live/rock/fantasy-factory), rock · 2.2 km


## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Big Rock?**

A named cliff in Christchurch, as the open map records it.

**Where exactly is Big Rock?**

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the cliff, the formation’s own ground, or its centreline’s middle. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.


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The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named cliff, rock, reef or quarry inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position for the feature; the dual names and the crag names are recorded as the map carries them.
The page: https://www.chch.live/rock/big-rock
The whole roll as data: https://www.chch.live/rock.geojson
The high places: https://www.chch.live/summit
The old sites: https://www.chch.live/site