Lyttelton
Lyttelton is the seaport satellite town of Christchurch in New Zealand, lying just over the Port Hills from Christchurch.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 3,170 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Lyttelton, New Zealand”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lyttelton Borough Council Chambers and Mount Cavendish.
Lyttelton Borough Council Chambers
Theater building
Photo: Paul Willyams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Lyttelton Borough Council Chambers was the head office of the Lyttelton Borough Council from 1887 until the late 20th century, when the borough council moved to a number of other buildings.
Mount Cavendish
Peak
Photo: Anon Mouse, CC BY 2.0.
Mount Cavendish is located in the Port Hills, with views over Christchurch, New Zealand and Lyttelton. It is part of the crater wall of the extinct volcano that formed Lyttelton Harbour.
Tauhinukorokio/Mount Pleasant
Peak
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Tauhinukorokio / Mount Pleasant, also known just as either Mount Pleasant or Tauhinukorokio individually, is the highest elevation in the eastern Port Hills in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heathcote Valley and Diamond Harbour.
Heathcote Valley
Suburb
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
Heathcote Valley is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is named after Sir William Heathcote, who was secretary of the Canterbury Association.
Diamond Harbour
Town
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Diamond Harbour is a small town on Banks Peninsula, in Canterbury, New Zealand. It is on the peninsula's northern coast, on the southern shores of Lyttelton Harbour, and is administratively part of the city of Christchurch.
Rāpaki
Quarter
Photo: Allie Hogg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Te Rāpaki-o-Te Rakiwhakaputa, commonly known as Rāpaki or Rapaki, is a small settlement within the Lyttelton Harbour basin. Rāpaki is one of four Banks Peninsula rūnanga based around marae.
Lyttelton
- Category: locality
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.6025° or 43° 36′ 9″ southLongitude
172.7206° or 172° 43′ 14″ eastPopulation
3,170Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ LYTOpen location code
4V8J9PXC+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 299170477OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Lyttelton from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lyttelton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليتلتون”
- Asturian: “Lyttelton”
- Catalan: “Lyttelton”
- Cebuano: “Lyttelton”
- Chinese: “利特尔顿”
- Chinese: “利特爾頓”
- Czech: “Lyttelton”
- Danish: “Lyttelton”
- Dutch: “Lyttelton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليتلتون”
- Estonian: “Lyttelton”
- Finnish: “Lyttelton”
- French: “Lyttelton”
- French: “Lyttleton”
- German: “Lyttelton”
- German: “Port Cooper”
- Hebrew: “לייטלטון, ניו זילנד”
- Indonesian: “Lyttelton, Selandia Baru”
- Indonesian: “Lyttelton”
- Italian: “Lyttelton”
- Japanese: “リトルトン”
- Korean: “리틀턴”
- Lithuanian: “Liteltonas”
- Malay: “Lyttelton, New Zealand”
- Malay: “Lyttelton”
- Maori: “Ōhinehou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lyttelton på New Zealand”
- Polish: “Lyttelton”
- Russian: “Литлтон”
- Russian: “Литтелтон”
- Russian: “Литтлтон”
- Spanish: “Lyttelton”
- Swedish: “Lyttelton, Nya Zeeland”
- Swedish: “Lyttelton”
- Turkish: “Lyttelton”
- Ukrainian: “Літтелтон (Нова Зеландія)”
- Ukrainian: “Літтелтон”
- Urdu: “لیٹلٹن، نیوزی لینڈ”
- Welsh: “Lyttelton, Seland Newydd”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Lyttelton”. Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 4.0.