Tai Tapu
Tai Tapu, previously known as Taitapu, is a small town adjacent to the Halswell River and nestled in the Port Hills, located 6 km east of the town of Lincoln and 18 km south west of Christchurch in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 540 residents
- Description: locality in Selwyn District, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Taitapu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Otahuna.
Otahuna
Hotel
Photo: Ralph Bestic, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Otahuna Lodge is the former homestead of the lawyer, runholder, stock breeder, politician, horticulturist, philatelist and philanthropist Sir Heaton Rhodes. Otahuna is situated 2½ km east of Tai Tapu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ladbrooks and Lincoln.
Ladbrooks
Hamlet
Ladbrooks is a locality in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is named after William and Eliza Ladbrook, who moved to the area in 1842 on the boat the Birman. Ladbrooks Hall, built in 1913, was substantially extended in the 1960s. Ladbrooks is situated 5 km north of Tai Tapu.
Lincoln
Town
Photo: DerekSmalls, Public domain.
Lincoln is a town in the Selwyn District, in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. The town is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres southwest of Christchurch. Lincoln is situated 6 km northwest of Tai Tapu.
Kennedys Bush
Quarter
Kennedys Bush is a south-western suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. Kennedys Bush is situated 7 km northeast of Tai Tapu.
Tai Tapu
- Category: locality
- Location: Selwyn District, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.6596° or 43° 39′ 35″ southLongitude
172.55023° or 172° 33′ 1″ eastPopulation
540Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
4V8J8HR2+53OpenStreetMap ID
node 204872787OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2182002Wikidata ID
Q17065644
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Tai Tapu” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Taitapu”
- Cebuano: “Tai Tapu”
- Dutch: “Tai Tapu”
- French: “Tai Tapu”
- Maori: “Taitapu”
- Polish: “Tai Tapu”
- Turkish: “Tai Tapu”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Paul’s and Tai Tapu Library.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tai Tapu”. Photo: Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0.