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Nikau Place

18 reports at 7 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

18 reports7 addresses18 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2504th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

8 Nikau Place, 6 reports4 Nikau Place, 3 reports7 Nikau Place, 2 reports5 Nikau Place, 2 reports2 Nikau Place, 2 reports1 Nikau Place, 2 reports10 Nikau Place, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Nikau Place, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Riccarton.

From the air, then

Nikau Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nikau Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nikau Place from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · 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, the open map’s record.

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 Nikau Place?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Nikau Place?

18 reports at 7 addresses, most often water & drains (9), roads & footpaths (5), vehicles & parking (2).

When was Nikau Place first reported on?

2019, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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