Little Akaloa
Place in Canterbury Region, New Zealand
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Little Akaloa is a small settlement and bay on Banks Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Little Akaloa
Little Akaroa | |
|---|---|
Little Akaloa Bay | |
  Little Akaloa Location of Little Akaloa on Banks Peninsula | |
| Coordinates: 43°40′30″S 172°59′30″E | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Canterbury Region |
| District | Christchurch City |
| Ward | Banks Peninsula |
| Population (2018 Census)[1] | |
• Total | 9 |
| Local iwi | Ngāi Tahu |
The settlement is sited at the end of the bay, a long, finger-shaped indentation in the northeastern coast of the peninsula, some 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Christchurch and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the near-namesake town of Akaroa. A small 6-kilometre (3.7 mi) long stream enters the bay at the settlement.[2]
The names of both Akaroa and Little Akaloa mean long harbour in the South Island dialects of Māori, which would be spelled Whangaroa in the standard language, cognate with other Polynesian place names like Hanga Roa in Rapa Nui or Fā‘aroa in Tahitian.
Demographics
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 9 | — |
| 2013 | 9 | +0.00% |
| 2018 | 9 | +0.00% |
| Source: [1] | ||
Little Akaloa covers 0.15 km2 (0.058 sq mi).[3] It is part of the larger Eastern Bays-Banks Peninsula statistical area.[4]
Little Akaloa had a population of 9 at the 2018 New Zealand census, unchanged since the 2013 census and the 2006 census.,[1] but a significant drop from its earlier population. Wise's New Zealand guide reported a population of 63 in 1969.[5]
