Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Canterbury Region
Detourmap lists 41 places in Canterbury Region, New Zealand, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Aoraki / Mount Cook. 26 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 41
- Oldest
- Christ Church Cathedral 1864
- Little known
- 26 of 41
- Share of New Zealand
- 11%
Canterbury Region 41
All 41, best known first.
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8.Christ Church Cathedral
Archaeological · 19th century · Notable
Ruins of the former Christ Church Cathedral, New Zealand
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30.Hinewai Reserve
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Privately owned nature reserve on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
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39.Mount Sunday
Nature · Hidden gem
Hill in Canterbury, New Zealand, used as a Lord of the Rings set
Elsewhere in New Zealand
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Canterbury Region?
Aoraki / Mount Cook. Mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Canterbury Region?
41: 39 nature & landscapes and 2 archaeological & historic sites. 26 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Canterbury Region?
Christ Church Cathedral, dated to 1864. 4 of the 41 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Canterbury Region here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Canterbury Region if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Canterbury Region is a first-level division of New Zealand, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.