Marine Drive

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 Diamond Harbour.

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 addresses on it

• 425 Marine Drive, 17 reports
• 134 Marine Drive, 8 reports
• 115 Marine Drive, 8 reports
• 166 Marine Drive, 7 reports
• 139 Marine Drive, 7 reports
• 401 Marine Drive, 6 reports
• 36 Marine Drive, 6 reports
• 20 Marine Drive, 6 reports
• 99 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 97 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 52 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 426 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 41 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 24 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 221 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 144 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 124 Marine Drive, 5 reports
• 68 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 44 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 399 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 291 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 215 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 145 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 136 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 120 Marine Drive, 4 reports
• 8 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 66 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 53 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 50 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 423 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 405 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 34 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 299 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 164 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 16 Marine Drive, 3 reports
• 72 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 6B Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 64 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 60B Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 60A Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 56 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 54 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 51 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 47–63 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 478 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 409 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 38 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 352 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 320 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 305 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 293 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 273 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 253 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 21 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 179 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 177 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 175 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 171 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 147 Marine Drive, 2 reports
• 137 Marine Drive, 2 reports

What got reported

• Roads & footpaths, 123 reports
• Water & drains, 73 reports
• Trees & parks, 67 reports
• Everything else, 21 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 13 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 7 reports
• Graffiti & vandalism, 5 reports
• Animals & pests, 2 reports

Year by year

• 2015, 1 report
• 2016, 2 reports
• 2017, 10 reports
• 2018, 14 reports
• 2019, 20 reports
• 2020, 9 reports
• 2021, 28 reports
• 2022, 66 reports
• 2023, 53 reports
• 2024, 38 reports
• 2025, 33 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 9 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

• LETTERS FROM THE LITTLE FOLK. (Otago Witness, 02 January 1901) · Papers Past, 2 Jan 1901
  …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, 28 May 1930
  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, 4 Dec 1930
  …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, 5 Aug 1936
  …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, 16 Apr 1937
  …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, 18 Dec 2013
  …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 businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Marine Drive, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• Four SquareSupermarkets · 141 Marine Drive Diamond Harbour
• Two Thumb HarboursideBars & pubs · 1/143 Marine Drive Diamond Harbour

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Marine Drive in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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.

• News of the Week, (Otago Witness, 07 December 1872) · Otago Witness, 7 Dec 1872
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Otago Daily Times, 18 August 1877) · Otago Daily Times, 18 Aug 1877
• LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 25 May 1880) · Star, 25 May 1880
• The Otago Daily Times. FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1881. (Otago Daily Times, 14 January 1881) · Otago Daily Times, 14 Jan 1881
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Evening Post, 09 October 1882) · Evening Post, 9 Oct 1882
• MINING. (Otago Witness, 08 October 1886) · Otago Witness, 8 Oct 1886
• LOCAL & GENERAL. (Otago Witness, 28 January 1887) · Otago Witness, 28 Jan 1887
• THE OTAGO DAILY TIMES (Otago Daily Times, 12 March 1888) · Otago Daily Times, 12 Mar 1888
• THE HUTT RAILWAY. (Evening Post, 02 April 1888) · Evening Post, 2 Apr 1888
• THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1891 THE MARINE REGULATIONS OF STEAMSHIP COMPANIES. (Evening Post, 08 November 1894) · Evening Post, 8 Nov 1894
• Untitled (Auckland Star, 23 September 1897) · Auckland Star, 23 Sept 1897
• A ROUND-THE-WORLD TRIP. (Otago Witness, 28 October 1897) · Otago Witness, 28 Oct 1897
• CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD FOR THE YEAR 1900. (Otago Witness, 02 January 1901) · Otago Witness, 2 Jan 1901
• UNDER AORANGI. (Grey River Argus, 06 March 1905) · Grey River Argus, 6 Mar 1905
• Grey River Argus and Blackball News. PUBLISHED DAILY (Grey River Argus, 09 April 1908) · Grey River Argus, 9 Apr 1908
• 8530 MEN CALLED UP (Evening Post, 08 May 1917) · Evening Post, 8 May 1917
• 15000 MEN CALLED UP (Evening Post, 03 September 1917) · Evening Post, 3 Sept 1917
• LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Ashburton Guardian, 14 September 1918) · Ashburton Guardian, 14 Sept 1918
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 21 February 1944) · Evening Post, 21 Feb 1944

As it was reported

more photographs
on the Diamond Harbour wall →

The latest on it

• Water Leak, 291 Marine Dr, 25 Sept 2026
• Trees - General, 105 Marine Drive, 1 Sept 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation, 215 Marine Dr, 24 Aug 2026
• Trees - General, 273 Marine Dr, 24 Aug 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation, 426 Marine Dr, 22 Aug 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 52 Marine Drive, 18 Aug 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 291 Marine Dr, 16 Jul 2026
• Water Leak, 291 Marine Dr, 16 Jul 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 281 Marine Dr, 23 Jun 2026
• Sewer General, 169 Marine Dr, 19 May 2026
• Fallen Tree, 41 Marine Drive, 4 May 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 309 Marine Drive, 29 Apr 2026
• Water Leak, 50 Marine Dr, 18 Apr 2026
• General Request, 292 Marine Drive, 30 Mar 2026
• Fallen Tree, 423 Marine Dr, 29 Mar 2026