Little Akaloa

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Little Akaloa
Little Akaroa
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Little Akaloa Bay
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Little Akaloa
Location of Little Akaloa on Banks Peninsula
Coordinates: 43°40′30″S172°59′30″E / 43.67500°S 172.99167°E / -43.67500; 172.99167 Coordinates: 43°40′30″S172°59′30″E / 43.67500°S 172.99167°E / -43.67500; 172.99167
Country New Zealand
Region Canterbury Region
District Christchurch City
WardBanks Peninsula
Local iwi Ngāi Tahu

Little Akaloa is a small settlement and bay on Banks Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand.

The settlement is sited at the end of the bay, a long, finger-shaped indentation in the northeastern coast of the peninsula, some 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Christchurch and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the near-namesake town of Akaroa. A small 6-kilometre (3.7 mi) long stream enters the bay at the settlement. [1]

The names of both Akaroa and Little Akaloa mean long harbour in the southern dialect of Māori.

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
20069    
20139+0.00%
20189+0.00%
Source: [2]

Little Akaloa covers 0.15 km2 (0.058 sq mi). [3] It is part of the larger Eastern Bays-Banks Peninsula statistical area. [4]

Little Akaloa had a population of 9 at the 2018 New Zealand census, unchanged since the 2013 census and the 2006 census. [2] , but a significant drop from its earlier population. Wise's New Zealand guide reported a population of 63 in 1969. [5]

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References

  1. Dowling, P. (ed.) (2004). ’’Reed New Zealand atlas’’. Auckland: Reed Publishing. ISBN   0 7900 0952 8 Map 83.
  2. 1 2 "Statistical area 1 dataset for 2018 Census". Statistics New Zealand. March 2020. 7026641.
  3. "ArcGIS Web Application". statsnz.maps.arcgis.com. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  4. 2018 Census place summary: Eastern Bays-Banks Peninsula
  5. 'Wise's New Zealand guide (1969) Dunedin: H. Wise & Co. p. 145.