Marine Drive
2 council reports at 2 addresses on Marine Drive, Governors Bay, on record since November 2025.
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 Governors Bay.
From the air, then
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 numbered spots
- 469 Marine Drive, 1 report
- 427 Marine Drive, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2025, 1 report
2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.
Documents that name it
Records on the shelf that name Marine Drive, 9 in total; the 6 earliest:
- LETTERS FROM THE LITTLE FOLK. (Otago Witness, 02 January 1901) · Papers Past ·
…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 ·
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 ·
…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 ·
…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 ·
…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 ·
…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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Its file in the papers
Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for Marine Drive, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 31 March 1877) · Star ·
- Untitled (Poverty Bay Herald, 24 June 1904) · Poverty Bay Herald ·
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Evening Post, 11 February 1908) · Evening Post ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Northern Advocate, 04 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 05 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Northern Advocate, 06 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 09 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 10 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 11 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Northern Advocate, 12 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Northern Advocate, 16 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 19 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 20 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 22 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 23 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 24 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 25 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Northern Advocate, 26 January 1912) · Northern Advocate ·
- PRINCESS JULIANA (Evening Post, 06 November 1943) · Evening Post ·
As it was reported
Latest on record
- Overgrown Vegetation at 427 Marine Dr, 20 Sept 2026
- Flooding at 469 Marine Dr, 23 Nov 2025
Questions, answered briefly
In Governors Bay, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2 reports at 2 addresses, most often water & drains (1), trees & parks (1).
2025, the record covers 2 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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