Changing perceptions of Banks Peninsula: this dissertation fulfills part of the requirements for the Diploma in Landscape Architecture [Lincoln College]

• Main Author: Stuart-Jones, P.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Lincoln College, University of Canterbury 1989
• Subjects: Banks Peninsula; history; Landscape assessment; land use; residents; visitors; attitudes; artists; ANZSRC::120107 Landscape Architecture; ANZSRC::050209 Natural Resource Management; Lyttleton; Banks Island
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10182/5404

Originally named Banks Island by Captain Cook in 1770, Banks Peninsula is the promontory on the Canterbury coast caused by the spread of alluvial plains from the Main Divide joining with the island formed by the Lyttleton - Akaroa volcanic complex about 20,000 years ago. This dissertation examines t...