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From the air

aerial view of Mount Pleasant World War Ⅱ 3.7″ Anti-aircraft Battery and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Mount Pleasant World War Ⅱ 3.7″ Anti-aircraft Battery

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

On the map as
ruin
The suburb
Lyttelton

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

27 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 24 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a playground or in a park Canterbury, Lyttelton 8081 · 2 July 2026
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art Canterbury, Lyttelton 8081 · 27 April 2026
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art Unnamed Road, Canterbury Region · 16 March 2026
Litter Unnamed Road, Canterbury Region · 8 February 2026
Dumped Rubbish Lyttelton · 24 November 2025
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art Lyttelton · 12 September 2025
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art Lyttelton 8082 · 26 February 2025
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art CP5P+89 Lyttelton · 15 February 2025
Graffiti somewhere else Lyttelton · 22 November 2024
Graffiti somewhere else Lyttelton · 22 November 2024
Graffiti somewhere else Lyttelton · 6 November 2024
Graffiti somewhere else CP5P+89 Lyttelton · 19 October 2024

Questions, answered briefly

What is Mount Pleasant World War Ⅱ 3.7″ Anti-aircraft Battery?

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

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/mount-pleasant-world-war-3-7-anti-aircraft-battery.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.