# Eye of the Needle, a lookout of Christchurch

A named lookout on the city’s high ground.

From the air, an aerial view of Eye of the Needle: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=summit-eye-of-the-needle (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## The ground under it

- [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay
- [On a plan-scheduled ecology site](https://www.chch.live/ecology), identified in the schedule
- [Inside a kept landscape, ONL4.1 - Outstanding Natural Landscape](https://www.chch.live/landscape), the landscape schedule
- [The plan zones this ground Rural Banks Peninsula](https://www.chch.live/zones), RuBP
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.1](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 14 June 2011 · 2.6 km from the pin · 2 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.68942&lon=172.709533&radius=250

## Around it

- [Mount Bradley](https://www.chch.live/summit/mount-bradley), high place · ~650 m
- [Mount Herbert / Te Ahu Patiki](https://www.chch.live/summit/mount-herbert-te-ahu-patiki), high place · 2.6 km
- [Magnificent Lookout](https://www.chch.live/summit/magnificent-lookout), high place · 2.6 km
- [Little Mount Herbert](https://www.chch.live/summit/little-mount-herbert), high place · 3.7 km


## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Eye of the Needle?**

A named lookout in the open map’s record of Christchurch.

**Is the pin on the map exact?**

It’s OpenStreetMap’s position, the top or the viewing spot as the volunteer map marks it. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.


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The position, elevation and names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named peak or viewpoint inside the city boundary (ODbL). An elevation is the mapper’s tag, not a fresh survey; a listing is a lead, not a register entry.
The page: https://www.chch.live/summit/eye-of-the-needle
Every high place as data: https://www.chch.live/peaks.geojson
The old sites below them: https://www.chch.live/site