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Both the Banks Track Three Day Classic Walk and Banks Track Two Day Hikers Option start and end in Akaroa and reached a maximum altitude of 699 metres (2,293 ft) at Trig GG, traversing a rugged coastline, forests, bush, pastures, and the Hinewai Reserve. The track sections are: Onuku Farm (outside Akaroa) to Flea Bay Cottage (11 km)
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.
The transformation from open pasture and gorse to native vegetation has occurred rapidly. [3] 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 ...
Okains Bay is a settlement, beach and bay on the Banks Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) from the main town on the Banks Peninsula, Akaroa. It is 86km (90 minutes drive) from Christchurch. The sandy beach is popular with tourists and has a river estuary emptying into the bay.
The area of the park was first established as one of the earliest agricultural estates on the Banks Peninsula. Dr Thomas Richard Moore bought 50 acres of land in 1852 on which he built a substantial cottage. By 1858 he had acquired a further 150 acres and converted the cottage into dairy. [2]
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.
The Akaroa museum, first opened in 1964, concentrates on the history of Akaroa and the Banks Peninsula. It is located at 71 Rue Lavaud and includes within the museum complex: the 1850s customs house, the 1878 court house and the 1840s Langlois-Eteveneaux cottage.