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Whero Avenue

41 reports at 20 addresses in Diamond Harbour, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 36 separate days somebody filed something about it.

41 reports20 addresses36 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1643rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

4 Whero Avenue, 6 reports18 Whero Avenue, 6 reports9 Whero Avenue, 4 reports5 Whero Avenue, 3 reports13 Whero Avenue, 3 reports33 Whero Avenue, 2 reports2 Whero Avenue, 2 reports17 Whero Avenue, 2 reports1 Whero Avenue, 2 reports7A Whero Avenue, 1 report6 Whero Avenue, 1 report41 Whero Avenue, 1 report40 Whero Avenue, 1 report35 Whero Avenue, 1 report31 Whero Avenue, 1 report23 Whero Avenue, 1 report21 Whero Avenue, 1 report16 Whero Avenue, 1 report15 Whero Avenue, 1 report11 Whero Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Whero Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Diamond Harbour.

From the air, then

Whero Avenue 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Whero Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Whero Avenue?

In Diamond Harbour, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Whero Avenue?

41 reports at 20 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (12), water & drains (11), trees & parks (11).

When was Whero Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 36 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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