Mount Herbert (Canterbury)

Mount Herbert / Te Ahu Pātiki is, at 919 metres (3,015 ft), the highest peak on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.[1] It is south of Lyttelton Harbour with the township of Diamond Harbour at its northern foot.

Mount Herbert from The Monument

The peak is named after Sidney Herbert, a member of the Canterbury Association.[2] The official name of the peak was amended to become a dual name by the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998.[3]

References
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  1. "Banks Peninsula tramping tracks". Department of Conservation. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
  2. Hight, James; C.R. Straubel (1957). A History of Canterbury Volume I: to 1854. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. p. 121.
  3. "Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998".

43.689590°S 172.741960°E / -43.689590; 172.741960


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