The Otakaro/ Avon River caching trail is underway, from the City to the Sea. This is the first one, located in a wall over the river from the Town Hall, which is at the time of publishing was subject to a major earthquake repair after a protracted debate about its future. Now it is open again!
The Avon River was known by the Māori as Ōtākaro[2] or Putare Kamutu.[3] The Canterbury Association had planned to call it the Shakespere [sic].[4] The river was given its current name by John Deans in 1848 to commemorate the Scottish Avon, which rises in the Ayrshire hills near what was his grandfathers' farm, Over Auchentiber.[5] The Deans built their homestead adjacent to the Avon River where the suburb of Riccarton now lies.
The name was officially altered to Avon River / Ōtākaro by the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, one of many such changes under the Ngāi Tahu treaty settlement.[6
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon_River_(Canterbury)
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