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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. [4]
The peak is increasingly accessible to the public since the purchase, with tracks for walking and mountain biking being established and connected to existing tracks in Orton Bradley Park and elsewhere on the peninsula. [8] This includes the establishment of Te Ara Pātaka, a 35-kilometre-long (22 mi) track across much of central Banks Peninsula ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Port Levy (Māori: Koukourarata) is a long, sheltered bay and settlement on Banks Peninsula in Canterbury, New Zealand. The current population is under 100, but in the mid-19th century it was the largest Māori settlement in Canterbury with a population of about 400 people. [ 1 ]
Lake Forsyth (known to Māori as Te Roto o Wairewa) is a lake on the south-western side of Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, near the eastern end of the much larger Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora. State Highway 75 to Akaroa and the Little River Rail Trail run along the north-western side of the lake.