Driving from Charteris Bay to Teddington | Canterbury | New Zealand | 4K

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Driving from Charteris Bay to Teddington on Banks Peninsula, in the Canterbury region on the East Coast of New Zealand's South Island.

Charteris Bay is a farming area south of Lyttelton. It is the site of Orton Bradley Park, named after the son of an early settler who gifted the family farm for the people of Canterbury. Farm buildings include an 1848 cottage and a working, water-powered machine shed. There are also fine plantings of exotic trees.

Banks Peninsula is a mass of volcanic hills, covering an area of 1,165 sq km, that sticks out from the Canterbury coast between Pegasus Bay and the Canterbury Bight. The highest point, Mt Herbert (Te Ahu Patiki) is 920m and overlooks Lyttelton Harbour. It is less than half the height of the volcanoes before they became extinct.