Waikari
| Waikari | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 42 ° 58 ′ S , 172 ° 42 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-CAN | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Canterbury | |
| District | Hurunui District | |
| Ward | Amuri-Hurunui Ward | |
| Residents | 261 (2013) | |
| height | 232 m | |
| Post Code | 7420 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 3 | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 The Star and Garter Hotel in Waikari |
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Waikari is a 2 km long village in the Hurunui District of the Canterbury regionon the South Island of New Zealand .
Origin of name
In the Māori language , the name of the village means "ditch".
geography
The village is located around 21 km north of Amberley and around 25 km southwest of Culverden on the southern edge of the Waikari River valley . The New Zealand State Highway 7 runs through Waikari and connects the village with Culverden in the northeast and over the Weka Pass with Waipara , around 12 km further south. The village is also connected to the New Zealand State Highway 1 to Christchurch via Waipara .
history
From April 6, 1882 to January 15, 1978, the village had a connection to the South Island railway network via the Waiau Branch . Today only a small part of the route over the Weka Pass is used as the Weka Pass Railway for tourist trains that run between Waipara and Waikari .
population
At the 2013 census, the village had 261 inhabitants.
economy
The main source of income for the village is limestone processing and sheep and cattle breeding.
Attractions
A memorial in the village commemorates the doctor Charles Thomas Wilson Little , who cared for his patients during the Spanish flu in 1918 until he finally died of the flu himself.
Near the village in the Weka Pass Reserve and in the Pyramid Valley are rock carvings of the Māori and a fossil site of the Moa , an already extinct flightless ratite .
literature
- Helga Neubauer: Waikari . In: The New Zealand Book . 1st edition. NZ Visitor Publications , Nelson 2003, ISBN 1-877339-00-8 , pp. 682 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2013 Census QuickStats about a place : Hurunui . Statistics New Zealand , accessed on September 5, 2017 (English, StatsMap: Meshblock analysis from the interactive map).
- ↑ a b c d Neubauer: Waikari . In: The New Zealand Book . 2003, p. 682 .
- ↑ Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed September 5, 2017 .