Diamond Harbour, New Zealand

Diamond Harbour, Christchurch

Diamond Harbour is a small settlement 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.

The name is applied not only to Diamond Harbour proper but to the nearby settlements of Church Bay, Charteris Bay, and Purau. In the 2006 census, this area had a population of slightly under 1,400.

A ferry connects Diamond Harbour to Lyttelton, on the harbour's northern shore.^[1] In combination with buses from Lyttelton to Christchurch, this allows residents of Diamond Harbour to commute to the city.

Diamond Harbour

Until 2012 Godley House ,the original cottage and later homestead of Mark Stoddart, the early settler supposed to have named the bay, was still standing. However, it was critically damaged in the 2011 earthquake and has since been demolished.^[2]

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Settlements of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand

Settlements	Allandale Akaroa Ataahua Barrys Bay Birdling's Flat Cass Bay Charteris Bay Chorlton Church Bay Cooptown Corsair Bay Diamond Harbour Duvauchelle French Farm Gebbies Pass Gebbies Valley Governors Bay Hilltop Kaituna Valley Kukupa Lansdowne Le Bons Bay Little Akaloa Little River Lyttelton Motukarara Ohinetahi Okains Bay Okuti Valley Onuku Otanerito Bay Peraki Pigeon Bay Port Levy Puaha Puari Purau Rapaki Robinsons Bay Tai Tapu Takamatua Teddington Wainui

Port Hills suburbs	Cashmere Clifton Cracroft Ferrymead Halswell Heathcote Valley Hillsborough Hoon Hay Huntsbury Kennedys Bush Moncks Bay Mt Pleasant Murray Aynsley Hill Redcliffs Richmond Hill Scarborough St Andrews Hill Sumner Te Onepoto / Taylors Mistake Westmorland

Coordinates: 43°37′43.6″S 172°43′53.6″E / 43.628778°S 172.731556°E / -43.628778; 172.731556