Akaroa
Akaroa Street, Christchurch
Akaroa is a small town on Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name. The name Akaroa is Kāi Tahu Māori for "Long Harbour", which would be spelled Whangaroa in standard Māori. The area was also named Port Louis-Philippe by French settlers after the reigning French king Louis Philippe I.
The town is 84 kilometres (52 mi) by road from Christchurch and is the terminus of State Highway 75. It is set on a sheltered harbour and is overlooked and surrounded by the remnants of an eruptive centre of the Miocene Banks Peninsula Volcano.
Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר (CC BY-SA 4.0); Egghead06 (talk) (CC BY-SA 3.0); Thomas Berwing (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The town is 84 kilometres (52 mi) by road from Christchurch and is the terminus of State Highway 75. It is set on a sheltered harbour and is overlooked and surrounded by the remnants of an eruptive centre of the Miocene Banks Peninsula Volcano.
Photo: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר (CC BY-SA 4.0); Egghead06 (talk) (CC BY-SA 3.0); Thomas Berwing (CC BY-SA 4.0)