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From the air

aerial view of Anti Aircraft Battery (Historic) and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Anti Aircraft Battery (Historic)

A named ruin in the open map’s record, lying in Sumner.

On the map as
ruin
The suburb
Sumner

Where it lies

The site’s extent as OpenStreetMap outlines it, a mapper’s draw, not a surveyed boundary. The strong outline is the suburb.

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

7 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Animals & pests, 7 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure Sumner · 12 September 2025
Animal - General Canterbury · 20 June 2025
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure CP5P+MF Christchurch · 29 June 2024
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure CP5P+MF Christchurch · 19 June 2024
Graffiti on a playground or in a park CP5P+MF Christchurch · 8 May 2024
Animal - General CP6P+79 Christchurch · 22 January 2024
Parks Sumner · 1 May 2021

Questions, answered briefly

What is Anti Aircraft Battery (Historic)?

A named ruin in the open map’s record of Christchurch, lying in Sumner.

What stood here?

The map’s own tags are all this page claims, a named place where something stood or lies buried. The heritage register nearby (linked where the record keeps one) and the library’s photograph collections carry the fuller story.

Is the site open to visit?

The map doesn’t say, an archaeological site may be private land, delicate ground or both. Treat the pin as where the record puts it, not an invitation.

The record behind this

The position and the tags are OpenStreetMap’s, a named node or way tagged historic=ruins or historic=archaeological_site inside the city boundary (ODbL). A name is the mapper’s, a lead, not a register listing. An old site may be private land or delicate ground; the pin is not an invitation.

This page as markdown: /site/anti-aircraft-battery-historic.md · the sites as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the register proper: /history · the high places: /summit · every roll, counted: /geography.