Christchurch Gondola
Cable car gliding up a rocky hilltop to a summit lookout over the harbour and the plains.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Christchurch Gondola rides up Mount Cavendish and into the hill's older Māori name, Ō Kete Upoko, and the Ngāi Tahu chief Te Rakiwhakaputa who gave it meaning some three hundred years ago. It touches the harbour beyond the ridge, the Ngāti Māmoe who held this land before, and an offering made on the summit rocks. Listen as your cabin climbs, with the bare rock near the top in view.
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