Christchurch

Christchurch is located at¹ and just north of the Banks Peninsula on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. The center of the city is along the Avon River. The urban area has 375 thousand residents, with 362 thousand of them under the city council.² It is served by Christchurch International Airport, one of the nation's busiest.³ The tallest structure is the Sugarloaf TV Tower (397 feet), and the tallest conventional building is the residential Pacific Tower (2010, 23 stories, 282 feet).⁴ The important container port⁵ of Lyttleton is within the current bounds of the city.

External references

The art museum of Christchurch, New Zealand

Footnotes

1. The Banks Peninsula came under the Christchurch city council as of 2006.
2. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_areas_of_New_Zealand and https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=List_of_cities_in_New_Zealand both accessed 6/22/2015.
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_New_Zealand, accessed 6/22/2015.
4. Information about buildings is from emporis.com, accessed 7/18/2015.
5. The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.