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Penguin Street

35 reports at 16 addresses in Southshore, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 33 separate days somebody filed something about it.

35 reports16 addresses33 days reported onfrom the air, then1 businessesthe 1751st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5 Penguin Street, 6 reports2A Penguin Street, 4 reports15 Penguin Street, 4 reports3A Penguin Street, 3 reports20B Penguin Street, 3 reports7 Penguin Street, 2 reports3 Penguin Street, 2 reports20A Penguin Street, 2 reports20 Penguin Street, 2 reports8 Penguin Street, 1 report6 Penguin Street, 1 report5E Penguin Street, 1 report2 Penguin Street, 1 report18 Penguin Street, 1 report14 Penguin Street, 1 report11 Penguin Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Penguin Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Penguin Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Penguin Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Penguin Street 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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Penguin Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin, the open map’s record.

New Brighton Beach beach · 72 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Penguin Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photo more photographs
on the Southshore wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Penguin Street?

In Southshore, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Penguin Street?

35 reports at 16 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (15), trees & parks (7), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Penguin Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 33 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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