Christchurch, New Zealand - Antigua Boat Shed - postcard c.1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Christchurch, New Zealand - The Antigua Boat Shed on Christchurch's River Avon
• Publisher:  David Kew Designer Postcard Collection
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
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• Notes / condition:  slightly larger card

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Christchurch (/'kra?st??rt?/; Maori: Otautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's third-most populous urban area. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of Christchurch. The population of Christchurch City at the 5 March 2013 census was 341,469.^[2]

The city was named by the Canterbury Association, which settled the surrounding province of Canterbury. The name of Christchurch was agreed on at the first meeting of the association on 27 March 1848. It was suggested by John Robert Godley, who had attended Christ Church, Oxford. Some early writers called the town Christ Church, but it was recorded as Christchurch in the minutes of the management committee of the association.^[3] Christchurch became a city by Royal Charter on 31 July 1856, making it officially the oldest established city in New Zealand.

The river that flows through the centre of the city (its banks now largely forming an urban park) was named Avon at the request of the pioneering Deans brothers to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was their grandfathers' farm and flows into the Clyde.^[3]

The usual Maori name for Christchurch is Otautahi (""the place of Tautahi""). This was originally the name of a specific site by the Avon River near present-day Kilmore Street and the Christchurch Central Fire Station. The site was a seasonal dwelling of Ngai Tahu chief Te Potiki Tautahi, whose main home was Port Levy on Banks Peninsula. The Otautahi name was adopted in the 1930s. Prior to that the Ngai Tahu generally referred to the Christchurch area as Karaitiana,^[4] a transliteration of the English word Christian. The city's name is often abbreviated by New Zealanders to Chch.^[5][6] In New Zealand Sign Language, the city's name is the fingerspelled letter C (made by forming the hand into a C shape) signed twice, with the second to the right of the first, while mouthing ""Christchurch"".^[7]

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country/ region/ city=new zealand

period=post-war (1945-present)

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