Marine Drive

28 reports at 19 addresses in Charteris Bay, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 26 separate days somebody filed something about it.

28 reports 19 addresses26 days reported onfrom the air, then 9 documents carry the namethe 2022nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Marine Drive, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Charteris Bay.

From the air, then

Marine Drive from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

520A Marine Drive, 5 reports
427 Marine Drive, 3 reports
518 Marine Drive, 2 reports
439 Marine Drive, 2 reports
426 Marine Drive, 2 reports
498 Marine Drive, 1 report
492 Marine Drive, 1 report
479 Marine Drive, 1 report
471 Marine Drive, 1 report
469 Marine Drive, 1 report
460 Marine Drive, 1 report
456 Marine Drive, 1 report
452 Marine Drive, 1 report
448 Marine Drive, 1 report
444 Marine Drive, 1 report
432 Marine Drive, 1 report
429A Marine Drive, 1 report
391 Marine Drive, 1 report
293 Marine Drive, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 17 reports
Trees & parks, 4 reports
Water & drains, 3 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report

Year by year

2017, 1 report
2019, 1 report
2020, 1 report
2022, 7 reports
2023, 4 reports
2024, 5 reports
2025, 5 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 9 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

LETTERS FROM THE LITTLE FOLK. (Otago Witness, 02 January 1901) · Papers Past, 2 Jan 1901
…the water can be seen the progeruws a range noted foi its height the road is known as the marine drive and by leaving the hotel at the beach and continuing around i the hill we experience the benefit…
Reflections on the foreshore at Sumner, a seaside and residential suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury's capital city, South Island · Kura Heritage Collections Online, 28 May 1930
An effect secured on the waterfront on an exceptionally still day when the marine Drive, with its surrounding hills, trees and buildings, were mirrored in the glassy waters. Auckland W…
NEWS OF THE DAY (Evening Post, 04 December 1930) · Papers Past, 4 Dec 1930
…n finished the waterfront road on the south side of lyttelton will give one of the finest marine drives in any part of the dominion says the ohristchnrch times as part of the government effort to reli…
THOUSANDS PLANTED (Evening Post, 05 August 1936) · Papers Past, 5 Aug 1936
…s planted vigorously everywhere today and there were two outstanding functions one at the marine drive at miramar where lady galway and her family each planted trees and at the national group where hi…
NEWS OF THE DAY (Evening Post, 16 April 1937) · Papers Past, 16 Apr 1937
…ere far from being what they should be and detracted seriously from the appearance of the marine drive certain of the shacks were occupied as living quarters councillor w duncan said that he understoo…
List of Independent Marriage and Civil Union Celebrants · New Zealand Gazette, 18 Dec 2013
…tima Ramesh, 41 Hillside Road, Mount Wellington, Auckland M Somerville, John Douglas, 460 Marine Drive, Charteris Bay, Lyttelton M Sorensen, Heather Anne, 1753 Awatere Valley Road, Awatere Valley, Ble…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.