| 词条 | Scarborough, New Zealand |
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Scarborough is a hillside suburb above Sumner in Christchurch, New Zealand. Scarborough is located between Sumner and Te Onepoto / Taylors Mistake.{{sfn|Ogilvie|2009|p=28}} It was named for the seaside resort in North Yorkshire, England.[1] The first European owner of most of the land was Major Alfred Hornbrook,{{sfn|Scholefield|1940|p=413}} whose Mount Pleasant run stretched as far east as Godley Head. A small land parcel of {{convert|25|acre}} near present-day Nicholson Park belonged to Charles Church Haslewood, who died in May 1858 when his hunting gun discharged while he looked down the barrel.{{sfn|Ogilvie|2009|p=28}} The land was purchased by R. M. Morten, and after his death, his sons had Scarborough subdivided into 65 sections by July 1911.{{sfn|Ogilvie|2009|p=28}} The first person who built in the area was Donald Patterson, a civil engineer. Patterson purchased all the land in the triangle formed by Scarborough Road and Flowers Track, and had it resurveyed into 41 sections, twice the number of the Morten brother survey.{{sfn|Ogilvie|2009|pp=28f}} Nicholson Park has views from a number of vantage points in this {{convert|4|ha|sqkm}} location,{{sfn|Ogilvie|2009|p=31}} with views of Sumner and the Canterbury coastline. Flowers Track can be descended from here, and it was the main start point of the walking track along the cliff tops that formed an early connection between Sumner and Taylors Mistake.{{sfn|Ogilvie|2009|p=31}} The track went past Whitewash Head and Sumner Head; the former name was first recorded by Thomas Potts in his book Out in the Open in 1882 and it is presumed that it refers to the white appearance from shag droppings.{{sfn|Ogilvie|2009|p=28}} The walkway was destroyed in the two earthquakes that hit on 13 June 2011; the first had its epicentre in Taylor's Mistake, and the second had its epicentre in Sumner. Much of the cliff faces collapsed into the sea below.[2] Some of the land near the cliffs has been red zoned and purchased by the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority. Houses on those properties are to be demolished, and the land is so unstable that drones are used to survey the land for establishing the best demolition method.[3] Notes1. ^{{cite web |url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/PlaceNames/ChristchurchPlaceNames-N-Z.pdf |title=Christchurch Place Names: N - Z |last=Harper |first=Margaret |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |page=50 |accessdate=1 March 2014 |date=20 February 2014}} 2. ^{{cite news |title=Video: Quake hit Whitewash Head |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/5166526/Video-Quake-hit-Whitewash-Head |accessdate=1 March 2014 |newspaper=The Press |date=20 June 2011}} 3. ^{{cite news |title=Drones film damage |url= http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/hills-and-harbour/9768731/Drones-film-earthquake-damage |accessdate=1 March 2014 |newspaper=The Press |date=27 February 2014 |page=A3}} References
| ref =harv | edition =2nd | publisher = Phillips & King Publishers | isbn = 978-0-9583315-6-2 | last = Ogilvie | first = Gordon | authorlink = Gordon Ogilvie | title = The Port Hills of Christchurch | location = Christchurch | year = 2009 }}
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