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Tourism contributed $57 million to total GDP in Kaikoura District in 2020, and was the top overall category, contributing 24.8% of district GDP. [36] In 2023, tourism provided 27.6% of jobs in Kaikōura District in 2023, with accommodation and food services representing another 18.5%.
Wave cut platform formation. The Kaikōura Peninsula is located on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Geologically the peninsula consists of an asymmetrical anticline bounded on either side by two synclines, the axis of which strikes northeast–southwest. [3]
From 1877, Kaikōura was governed by Kaikoura County. [5] The county's boundary was adjusted northwards in 1940 to take over most of the East Coast Riding of Awatere County. There were also desires for land from Cheviot County to transfer to Kaikoura County, but the petition lapsed.
However, the mountain stone weta (Hemideina maori) has one of the most extreme adaptive processes ever seen. ... and their range covers the Kaikoura Ranges south to the Rock and Pillar range in ...
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, a Category 2 Historic Place in Kaikōura. The Kaikōura District is a territorial authority of New Zealand located along the eastern coast of the South Island in northern Canterbury. The region was historically an important Māori settlement area from the earliest period of inhabitation. European inhabitation began in the 1840s with the establishment of whaling ...
Formed along New Zealand's Marlborough Fault System, they can be seen as the northernmost extension of the Southern Alps in the South Island. Named the Looker-on mountains, by Captain James Cook, they take their name from the town of Kaikōura at the southern extreme of the more eastern range, the Seaward Kaikōuras.
The summit is around 11 km from Kaikōura. [1] On a clear day, it provides views of the Banks Peninsula to the south and the North Island to the north. [3]About 2 kms from the top, there is a backcountry shelter Mt Fyffe Hut.
The Clarence River (Māori: Waiau Toa; officially Waiau Toa / Clarence River) is a major river which flows through the Kaikōura Ranges in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island.