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Encyclopedia Britannica



LYTTELTON

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 185 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
LYTTELTON , a borough of New Zealand, the port of Christ-
church
  (q.v.) on the E.
coast
  of
South
 
Island
 , on an inlet on the north-western side of Banks Peninsula. Pop. (1906) 3941. It is surrounded by abrupt hills rising to r600 ft., through which a railway communicates with Christchurch (7 M. N.W.) by a tunnel rt m.
long
 .
Great
  breakwaters protect the harbour, which has an area of r,o acres, with a low-tide depth of 20 to 27 ft. There is a graving dock accessible for vessels of 6000 tons. The produce of the
rich
  agricultural
district
  of Canterbury is exported, frozen or preserved. Lyttelton, formerly called Port Cooper and Port Victoria, was the
original
 
settlement
  in this
district
  (185o).


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