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pigeon bay

Bay 20 km north-west of Akaroa on Banks Peninsula. It was settled in the 1840s, before Christchurch was founded, by the Hay and Sinclair families.

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Meaning of place name
So named by whalers because the forest at the bay was alive with keruru or wood pigeons.

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