From the air

Ōketeupoko / The Basket of Heads

A named summit on the city’s high ground, standing over Lyttelton. Also recorded as “Ō kete upoko”.

On the map as

summit

The suburb

Lyttelton

Where it stands

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position, the strong outline is the suburb the map puts it in, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

Under the hill country’s watch band the plan’s broad instability overlay Inside a kept landscape, ONL38.2 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Open Space Natural ON The rockfall survey counts 25 boulders within 500 m 16 came down The nearest recorded shake: M3.1 7 March 2011 · under 150 m from the pin · 499 logged within 5 km

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

Mt Pleasant Reserve regional park · under 150 m Scotts Valley Reserve regional park · ~100 m Walk and bike track through Sumner track · ~750 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Heathcote Valley track · ~1000 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Lyttelton track · 1.0 km from the pin Upper Gondola Station high place · ~300 m Mount Cavendish high place · ~350 m Tauhinukorokio / Mount Pleasant high place · ~550 m Port hills high place · ~850 m

The reports nearby

7 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 4 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Animal - General 653–689 Summit Rd, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8022 · 25 September 2026

Facility - General Request 704 Summit Road, Lyttelton · 9 April 2024

Graffiti CP6C+65 Lyttelton · 22 November 2023

Graffiti 710 Summit Road · 4 October 2023

Park - General Request 825 Summit Road, Heathcote Valley · 18 July 2023

Rubbish/Recycling 758 Summit Road · 29 December 2021

Graffiti Major Hornbrook Track, Lyttelton · 20 November 2015

Questions, answered briefly

What is Ōketeupoko / The Basket of Heads?

A named summit in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing over Lyttelton.

What else is Ōketeupoko / The Basket of Heads called?

The map also records “Ō kete upoko”, the page answers to all of them.

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.

The record behind this

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; the dual names are recorded as the map carries them.

This page as markdown: /summit/oketeupoko-the-basket-of-heads.md · every high place as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the old sites below: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.