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Lyttelton

5 (2004 Ratings)
Canterbury, New Zealand
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About Lyttelton

Lyttelton is a port town on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour, at the northwestern give up of Banks Peninsula and close to Christchurch, on the eastern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Due to its establishment as a landing factor for Christchurch-certain seafarers, Lyttelton has traditionally been seemed as the "Gateway to Canterbury for colonial settlers. The port remains a ordinary destination for cruise liners and is the South Island's most important items shipping terminal, dealing with 34% of exports and sixty one% of imports by means of price. In 2009 Lyttelton become provided Category I Historic.

Area status by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust described as "an area of special or first rate historic or cultural historical past significance or cost. According to the 2013 census, the same old resident populace of Lyttelton, which includes neighbouring groups of Rapaki, Cass Bay and Corsair Bay, was 2,859. A domestic for Maori for about seven-hundred years, Lyttelton Harbour became discovered with the aid of European voyagers passing by on sixteen February 1770 for the duration of the Endeavour's first voyage to New Zealand.

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