Canterbury Plains
The Canterbury Plains are an area in New Zealand centred in the Mid Canterbury, to the south of the city of Christchurch in the Canterbury region. Their northern extremes are at the foot of the Hundalee Hills in the Hurunui District, and in the south they merge into the plains of North Otago beyond the Waitaki River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Plain
- Description: plain in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Canterbury Plain” and “Southern Plains”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wheatstone and Huntingdon.
Wheatstone
Locality
Wheatstone is a locality in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located on the Canterbury Plains south of Ashburton, on the banks of the Ashburton River / Hakatere.
Huntingdon
Hamlet
Huntingdon is a lightly populated locality in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It is situated on the southern bank of the Ashburton River / Hakatere, south of Ashburton.
Flemington
Locality
Flemington is a lightly populated locality in the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. Flemington is situated 2½ km southwest of Canterbury Plains.
Canterbury Plains
- Categories: plain and landform
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Uighur—“Canterbury Plains” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Planas de Canterbury”
- Cebuano: “Canterbury Plains”
- Chinese: “坎特伯里平原”
- Chinese: “坎特伯雷平原”
- Dutch: “Canterbury Plains”
- Finnish: “Canterburyn tasanko”
- French: “Plaines de Canterbury”
- German: “Canterbury Plains”
- Korean: “캔터버리 평원”
- Korean: “캔터베리 평원”
- Macedonian: “Кантербериска Низина”
- Macedonian: “Кантербериска Рамница”
- Maori: “Kā Pākihi-whakatekateka-a-Waitaha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Canterbury Plains”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Canterbury Plains”
- Norwegian: “Canterbury Plains”
- Polish: “Canterbury (nizina)”
- Polish: “Canterbury”
- Portuguese: “Planícies de Canterbury”
- Russian: “Кентерберийская равнина”
- Slovenian: “Canterburyjska ravnina”
- Spanish: “Llanuras de Canterbury”
- Turkish: “Canterbury düzlükleri”
- Turkish: “Canterbury Düzlükleri”
- Turkish: “Canterbury Plains”
- Uighur: “كانتېربۇرى تۈزلەڭلىكى”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Wheatstone and Flemington.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kongutu Reserve and Ashburton River/Hakatere.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Canterbury Plains”. Photo: Wesley Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0.