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The New Zealand region of Canterbury () is mainly composed of the Canterbury Plains and the surrounding mountains.

The Canterbury Plains seen from Mount Hutt

Like much of the Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands the Canterbury Plains have been highly modified since human settlement and now support a large agricultural industry.

Material from the highly erodible Southern Alps is removed via weathering ; then carried across the Canterbury Plains by various braided rivers to the east coast beaches.

From its source in the Southern Alps, the Waimakariri River flows across the Canterbury Plains of the South Island of New Zealand.

This road goes between the Canterbury Plains and the Southern Alps

The plan that Felix drew up for surveying the Canterbury Plains was largely adopted and contributed significantly to the early success of the colony.

The town is the centre of a rich agricultural and pastoral farming district, part of the Canterbury Plains.

The result is that most of the main streets are undulating, a clear contrast with the flat landscape of the Canterbury Plains to the north.

Mount Hutt rises to the west of the Canterbury Plains in the South Island of New Zealand, above the braided upper reaches of the Rakaia River, and 80 kilometres west of Christchurch.

It is located on the Canterbury Plains to the west of Banks Peninsula, 22 kilometres south of Christchurch.

It is located near the western edge of the Canterbury Plains, 35 kilometres north of Ashburton.

North of Geraldine to Oxford, the HVDC line broadly follows the Inland Scenic Route tourist highway through the inland Canterbury Plains, passing close to the towns of Methven, Sheffield and Oxford, before continuing northeast towards Waipara.

Rangiora is to the north of Christchurch, close to the northern end of Canterbury's Inland Scenic Route ( formerly State Highway 72 ), which skirts the inner edge of the Canterbury Plains, running southwest to Timaru via Oxford and Geraldine.

Location of the Canterbury PlainsThe Canterbury Plains are an area in New Zealand centred to the south of the city of Christchurch in the Canterbury Region.

The Canterbury Plains were formed from quaternary moraine gravels deposited during glacial periods in the late pleistocene approximately 3 million years to 10, 000 years ago.

A major earthquake on 4 September 2010 revealed a previously unknown geological fault beneath the Canterbury Plains and created a surface rift that offset features by as much as four meters in places.

The rivers of the Canterbury Plains have a distinctive braided appearance, which differentiates this area from the plains of North Otago to the south-beyond the Waitaki, the rivers typically have narrower, well-formed channels, rather than spreading across wide shingle depressions, as in Canterbury.

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* 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.

In February 2011, a major earthquake in Christchurch, the nation's second largest city, significantly impacted the national economy and the government formed the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority in response.

* June 18 – Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed.

New Shaker communities formed in the 1780s and 1790s included Hancock and West Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; Harvard, Massachusetts ; East Canterbury, New Hampshire ( or Shaker Village ); Shirley, Massachusetts ; Enfield, Connecticut ( then also known as Shaker Station ); Enfield, New Hampshire ; (" Chosen Vale "), at Tyringham, Massachusetts ; New Gloucester, Maine ( since 1890: " Sabbathday Lake "); and Alfred, Maine, where, more than anywhere else among the Shakers, spiritualistic healing of the sick was practiced.

The Canterbury Province was formed in 1853 following the passing of the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 from the part of New Munster Province and covered both the east and west coasts of the South Island of New Zealand.

Loudon was originally formed of territory taken from Canterbury.

He formed the Canterbury Aero Club in 1910, helping to make and fly gliders on the Cashmere hills.

The collection was begun in 1376 and much improved by a bequest from Matthew Parker, the college's Master between 1544 and 1553, who as Archbishop of Canterbury formed a fine collection of manuscripts from the libraries of dissolved monasteries.

The Sydney Turf Club ( STC ) was formed in 1943 and holds races on the Rosehill Gardens track and at Canterbury.

In 1968, Can formed by two former students of Karlheinz Stockhausen, adding jazz to the mix ( and in that way the krautrock scene can be seen to parallel the emerging Canterbury scene in England at the same time ), while the following year saw Kluster ( later Cluster ) begin recording keyboard-based electronic instrumental music with an emphasis on static drones.

Lincoln University ( Māori: Te Whare Wanaka o Aoraki ) is a New Zealand university that was formed in 1990 when Lincoln College, Canterbury was made independent of the University of Canterbury.

During the late 1960s, many successful rock and jazz bands were formed around the city of Canterbury, creating a subgenre of music known as the Canterbury sound.

The Canterbury Baptist Association was formed in 1874.

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust was formed under the patronage of Ingrams and the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie.

The most significant electric folk group from the region were the Oyster Band, formed in Canterbury, while guitarist John Martyn came from Surrey and fiddle player Chris Leslie from Banbury in Oxfordshire.

The Canterbury Bulldogs were formed in 1935 and played their first season without a home ground.

For some time around 1975, Took lived in the Kent towns of Canterbury and Margate, where he took on local musician Les Dray as his guitarist and manager, and together they formed a new band, " Jolly Roger & The Crimson Gash ", with local musicians.

The ACN was formed in response to suggestions by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Rowan Williams, in the wake of the controversy regarding Anglican views of homosexuality.

It was formed by the amalgamation of three independent colleges: Canterbury College of Art, Maidstone College of Art and Rochester ( Medway ) College of Art.

Included in these was the Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, which had formed in the late 1950s to cater for local rail enthusiast interests.

In 2007, the University of Canterbury Students ' Association controversially agreed to sub-licence the RDU frequency to a newly formed company, RDU98. 5FM Ltd and students against the sale selectively leaked information to the Press stating the station was sold for the price of $ 1.