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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 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.
Also known as a cable car, the Christchurch Gondola's course is 1,000 metres (1,100 yd) in length, and from the summit it is possible to see across the city of Christchurch and the Canterbury Plains to the Southern Alps in the north and west, and down into Lyttelton Harbour and Banks Peninsula in the south and east.
Print/export Download as PDF ... Motukarara Racecourse is a grass harness racing track operated by the Banks Peninsula Trotting Club. ... people were employed full ...
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 ...
Akaroa Harbour is part of Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. [2] The harbour enters from the southern coast of the peninsula, heading in a predominantly northerly direction. It is one of two major inlets in Banks Peninsula, on the coast of Canterbury, New Zealand; the other is Lyttelton Harbour on the northern coast.
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 ...