Akaroa
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Akaroa is a small town on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name. The name Akaroa is Kāi Tahu Māori for "Long Harbour",
Akaroa township and main wharf in 2024
Charles François Lavaud (1798–1878)
An Akaroa street sign showing French-language street names
Akaroa lighthouse in 2025
Banks Peninsula Volcano
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The Banks Peninsula Volcano is an extinct volcanic complex to the east of Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island. While the volcano is highly eroded it still forms the majority of Banks Peninsula
Akaroa
…terminus of State Highway 75. It is set on a sheltered harbour and is overlooked and surrounded by the remnants of an eruptive centre of the Miocene Banks Peninsula Volcano. In 1830, the Māori settlement at Takapūneke, east of the current town of Akaroa, was the scene of a notorious incident. The captain of the British…
Banks Peninsula with Akaroa Harbour (West, Lower) and Lyttelton Harbour (East, Upper)
A sample of rhyolite from the Allandale Rhyolite, Lyttelton, New Zealand
The Monument on Banks Peninsula near Diamond Harbour, with some fresh rockfall from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.