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Accommodation at Stony Bay for walkers on the Banks Track. The Banks Track is a 31 kilometre private walking track on the Banks Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand in the Canterbury region. The track opened in 1989 as the first privately owned track in New Zealand. [citation needed]
The reserve includes 20 walking tracks open to the public, including part of the Banks Peninsula Track. The reserve is managed for the Trust by botanist Hugh Wilson , who hand-writes and illustrates a newsletter about the reserve, Pīpipi , which the Trust publishes several times a year.
Banks Peninsula (Māori: Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū) is a peninsula of volcanic origin on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It has an area of approximately 1,200 square kilometres (450 sq mi) [ 1 ] and encompasses two large harbours and many smaller bays and coves.
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A model of the Banks Peninsula (vertically exaggerated); the Port Hills are the volcanic ridge on the left. The volcano is one of two from which Banks Peninsula was originally formed 12 million years ago. [2] The area was first populated by Māori during the 14th century. During early European settlement some 500 years later the Port Hills ...
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The Banks Peninsula Marine Mammal Sanctuary, New Zealand’s first for marine mammals, was created in 1988, to protect Hector’s dolphin from bycatch in set nets. It was expanded in 2020, with restrictions introduced on seismic surveying and seabed mining.stretches from the Jed River south to the Waitaki River , and extends 20 nautical miles ...
Motukarara Racecourse is a grass harness racing track operated by the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Greenpark Huts is a small village on the shore of Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora.