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A map showing population density in the Canterbury Region at the 2023 census. Canterbury (Māori: Waitaha) is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island. The region covers an area of 44,503.88 square kilometres (17,183.04 sq mi), making it the largest region in the country by area.
English: A 1942 map of Canterbury, New Zealand , prepared by the Japanese Military following its attack on Pearl Harbour. Date: 23 October 2019, 17:31:25: Source: Own ...
New Zealand is divided into sixteen regions for local government purposes. ... Canterbury Waitaha: Environment Canterbury: 14 Christchurch: South 44,504 17,183 694,400
Map of provinces after 1852. New provinces were formed by the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852.This Act established a quasi-federal system of government and divided the country into the six provinces of Auckland, New Plymouth, Wellington, Nelson, Canterbury, and Otago.
Looking across Temuka and the Canterbury Plains toward the Southern Alps. Lake Tekapo, with Aoraki / Mount Cook and the Southern Alps in the background. South Canterbury is the area of the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand bounded by the Rangitata River in the north and the Waitaki River (the border with the Otago Region) to the south.
Canterbury was founded in December 1850 by the Canterbury Association of influential Englishmen associated with the Church of England. (An attempt was initially made to restrict residence in the province to members of the church but this was abandoned.) [1] The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph—the first two of the First Four Ships—arrived in the area on 16 December 1850, later celebrated as ...
The Canterbury Plains (Māori: Kā Pākihi-whakatekateka-a-Waitaha [1]) are an area in New Zealand centred in the Mid Canterbury, to the south of the city of Christchurch in the Canterbury region. Their northern extremes are at the foot of the Hundalee Hills in the Hurunui District , and in the south they merge into the plains of North Otago ...
Selwyn District is a predominantly rural district in central Canterbury, on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island.It is named after the Selwyn River / Waikirikiri, which is in turn named after Bishop George Selwyn, the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand who, in 1843 and 1844, travelled the length of the country by horse, foot, boat and canoe, leaving in his wake a sprinkling of ...