Port Levy

Port Levy

Port Levy is a long, sheltered bay and settlement on Banks Peninsula in Canterbury, New Zealand.

The current population is under 100, but in the mid 1800s it was the largest Māori settlement in Canterbury with a population of about 400 people. It is named after Solomon Levey ["sic"] , a Sydney merchant and ship owner who sent a number of trading vessels to the Banks Peninsula area during the 1820s.

The bay was settled by the Ngai Tūāhuriri sub-tribe of Ngāi Tahu, and the chief Moki named the bay "Koukourarata" after a stream in Wellington that recalls the birth of his father, Tu Ahuriri.

It was also the home of Tautahi, the chief after whom the swampland area Ōtautahi was named - now the site of the city of Christchurch.

The first Māori Anglican church was built here - a stone memorial marks the site.

Portions of the Peter Jackson film "Heavenly Creatures" were shot in Port Levy. At this place, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, two 16 year old girls from Christchurch, saw their imaginary "Fourth World" on 3rd April, 1953, the so-called Port Levy Revelation. It was never explained what actually happened then (a gateway through the clouds, they called it). (See also: Parker-Hulme murder.

External links

* http://www.kaitahu.org.nz/koukourarata/ Website of the local rununga
* Recent community statistics [http://www2.stats.govt.nz/domino/external/web/CommProfiles.nsf/FindInfobyArea/596600-au#ethnic]
* [http://library.christchurch.org.nz/TiKoukaWhenua/Koukourarata/ Detail on Māori history]
* [http://www.ccc.govt.nz/ Now part of Christchurch City]
* [http://anthonylarme.tripod.com/hc/hclevy1.html "Heavenly Creatures" locations]
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020096b.htm Biography of Solomon Levey]


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