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From the air

aerial view of Watchtower lookout and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Watchtower lookout

A named lookout on the city’s high ground, standing over Cass Bay.

On the map as
lookout
The suburb
Cass Bay

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, ONL1.0 - Outstanding Natural Landscape the landscape schedule The plan zones this ground Open Space Natural ON The rockfall survey counts 121 boulders within 500 m 45 came down · 12 wobble easy The nearest recorded shake: M3 10 September 2010 · ~450 m from the pin · 453 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

Whakaraupo Reserve the regional park it’s inside Mt Cavendish Reserve regional park · ~400 m Walk and bike track through Lyttelton track · ~400 m from the pin Walk and bike track through Heathcote Valley track · ~450 m from the pin Te Moenga-o-Wheke / The Tors high place · ~950 m Te Tihi-o-Kahukura / Castle Rock high place · 1.2 km Upper Gondola Station high place · 1.2 km Mount Cavendish high place · 1.3 km

The reports nearby

1 council report pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Everything else, 1 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

General Request CP34+2X, Lyttelton 8082 · 4 February 2024

Questions, answered briefly

What is Watchtower lookout?

A named lookout in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing over Cass Bay.

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/watchtower-lookout.md · every high place as data: /peaks.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the old sites below: /site · every roll, counted: /geography.