Lyttelton South Island New Zealand 1895 Antique Print

A print from a disbound book published in 1895. The reverse side has an unrelated picture.

Suitable for framing, the average picture size is approx 10" x 8" or 25cm x 20cm

Actual page including border and text is approx 12.75" x 10.5" or 32.5cm x 26.5cm

All pictures will be sent bagged and in a tube or Large Letter size box for protection in transit.

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LYTTELTON is situated on the coast of Canterbury province, just north of Banks Peninsula, on the east side of South Island, New Zealand. It is the seaport of Christchurch, from which town it is eight miles distant. The two are connected by a railway tunnelled through the hills which wall in the bay (one tunnel is over a mile long), and the lines run right out alongside the wharves. There is also a coach road over a flank of the hills known as the Zig-Zag. A big trade is carried on at Lyttelton, which owes its prosperity chiefly to the fact that it is the port for the shipping of the wool and wheat produced in the plains of Canterbury. The entrance to the harbour, between Godley Head and Baleine Point, at the foot of Adderly Head, is some two miles broad, and vessels drawing twenty-five feet can come up to the jetties and wharves at low water. Additional jetty accommodation has in late years been made for ocean steamers. The total berthage space is eleven thousand feet, and the largest wharf, called the Gladstone, is over a thousand feet long. The harbour used to be exposed to seas rolling in from the heads during south-westerly breezes; but since the breakwaters have been built the port no longer suffers from that disadvantage. The longest breakwater, built from Officers' Point to shelter the harbour from these south-westerly gales, measures two thousand feet; the second is one thousand five hundred feet long, and together they enclose a space of one hundred and twelve acres. There is a fine lighthouse on Baleine Point; and in all, including the steam-tug, between four and five hundred thousand pounds have been spent on harbour improvements, and the graving-dock cost over £100,000. Lyttelton which has been called Port Cooper, and also Port Victoria—has some 5000 inhabitants.