Mount Cavendish

Mount Cavendish is positioned in the Port Hills, with perspectives over Christchurch, New Zealand and Lyttelton. It is a part of the crater wall of the extinct volcano that shaped Lyttelton Harbour. The Mount Cavendish Reserve presentations some of the first-rate examples of lava waft to be visible at the Port Hills. Mount Cavendish was first transferred to the Crown for a Scenic Reserve in 1910, with the aid of the Morten Brothers. The mountain became first named Hill Morten in 1912 by Harry Ell, in reputation of the Morten circle of relatives's gifts of land for the Summit Road and scenic reserves. The name Mount Cavendish turned into first given to close by Mount Pleasant and then a suburb is now named in 1848, but did now not stick and the peak of Hill Morten was named Mount Cavendish after the Hon.

Richard Cavendish of the Canterbury Association. It is 448 metres 1,470 toes excessive and falls in the Mount Cavendish Scenic Reserve, which sits on the pinnacle of the Heathcote Valley, close to the northern front to the Lyttelton Road Tunnel. Mount Cavendish is placed about 10 km from Dyers Pass, and four.7 km from Evans Pass thru the Summit Road. On foot, it is able to be accessed via the Crater Rim Walkway or the Bridle Path which connects Heathcote Valley and Lyttelton. Access is also thru the Christchurch Gondola, which has its decrease terminal positioned on Bridle Path Road, in Heathcote Valley.