Whitewash Head
Encyclopedia
Whitewash Head is the name of the seaward clifftop on Scarborough Hill in Christchurch
, Canterbury, New Zealand
. Taylors Mistake Walkway between Sumner
and Taylors Mistake goes past Whitewash Head. There is a Spotted Shag
colony in the cliff below Whitewash Head.
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
, Canterbury, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. Taylors Mistake Walkway between Sumner
Sumner, New Zealand
Sumner is a coastal seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand and was surveyed and named in 1849 in honour of John Bird Sumner, the then newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and president of the Canterbury Association...
and Taylors Mistake goes past Whitewash Head. There is a Spotted Shag
Spotted Shag
The Spotted Shag or Parekareka, Phalacrocorax punctatus, is a species of cormorant endemic to New Zealand. Originally classified as Phalacrocorax punctatus, it is sufficiently different in appearance from typical members of that genus that to be for a time placed in a separate genus, Stictocarbo,...
colony in the cliff below Whitewash Head.