# Holmes Bay Crag, a cliff of Christchurch

A named cliff in Christchurch, at Pigeon Bay.

Suburb: [Pigeon Bay](https://www.chch.live/pigeon-bay)

From the air, an aerial view of Holmes Bay Crag: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=rock-holmes-bay-crag (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: M4](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 15 June 2011 · under 150 m from the pin · 64 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.659803&lon=172.87089&radius=250

## Around it

- [The Temple](https://www.chch.live/rock/temple), rock · 6.9 km
- [Lions Head](https://www.chch.live/rock/lions-head), rock · 8.5 km
- [Dawn Wall](https://www.chch.live/rock/dawn-wall), rock · 10.4 km
- [Parson Rock](https://www.chch.live/rock/parson-rock), rock · 10.6 km


## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Holmes Bay Crag?**

A named cliff in Christchurch, at [Pigeon Bay](https://www.chch.live/pigeon-bay), as the open map records it.

**Where exactly is Holmes Bay Crag?**

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/holmes-bay-crag
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