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Admirals Way

80 reports at 16 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 70 separate days somebody filed something about it.

80 reports16 addresses70 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 970th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

24 Admirals Way, 33 reports21 Admirals Way, 9 reports17 Admirals Way, 8 reports9 Admirals Way, 6 reports30 Admirals Way, 4 reports33 Admirals Way, 3 reports20E Admirals Way, 3 reports19 Admirals Way, 3 reports29 Admirals Way, 2 reports23–33 Admirals Way, 2 reports15 Admirals Way, 2 reports31 Admirals Way, 1 report25-33 Admirals Way, 1 report20–24 Admirals Way, 1 report20 Admirals Way, 1 report11 Admirals Way, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Admirals Way, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is New Brighton.

From the air, then

Admirals Way from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Admirals Way from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Admirals Way from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Admirals Way from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Admirals Way 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 Admirals Way?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Admirals Way?

80 reports at 16 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (26), rubbish & dumping (15), trees & parks (14).

When was Admirals Way first reported on?

2015, the record covers 70 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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