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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.
On 28 May 2006 the first section of the rail trail was opened, between Motukarara and Catons Bay Reserve. It has since been extended, first to the Little River hotel, and then to Wairewa Pa Road, [1] some 500 m short of the restored Little River station, which has preserved ex-New Zealand Railways freight wagons and a craft centre.
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.
4.1 Location map, using default map (image) 4.2 Location map many, using relief map (image1) 5 See also. ... Module: Location map/data/New Zealand Banks Peninsula.
Christchurch Gondola terminal on Mount Cavendish. The Christchurch Gondola is a tourist attraction service offered by Christchurch Attractions in Christchurch, New Zealand.. The gondola base is located in Heathcote Valley, and it traverses the slopes of Mount Cavendish in the Port Hi
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.