Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre

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Provides history, business, community and tourist information. Also includes information relating to the earthquake recovery.

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:23 16:51:42

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Quake: Lyttelton: John Key tours the town in an Army LAV".

Photograph of 6 Saint Davids Street (2)

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A photograph of a detail of the house at 6 Saint Davids Street in Lyttelton.

Christchurch Press Image: John Kirk-Anderson, 2011:02:23 09:15:33

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage to property corner Oxford Street and Sumner Road, Lyttelton".

Photograph of 6 Saint Davids Street (3)

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A photograph of a detail of the house at 6 Saint Davids Street in Lyttelton.

Christchurch Press Infographic: 10 October 2011

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A map showing the location and magnitude of an aftershock 10km east of Lyttelton.

Family of quake victim call for action over access to Lyttelton

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The family of a man killed while trying to reach his family after the February earthquake in Canterbury wants the Christchurch City Council to ensure people in Lyttelton are not cut off again.

Christchurch Press Image: Iain McGregor, 2011:02:24 01:56:32

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake. Steve Simpson from the Earthquake Commission at work in Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:23 17:57:04

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Quake: Lyttelton: Navy personal delivering food to Diamond Harbour jetty from HMNZS Canterbury".

Lyttelton port hopes to have core services back within week

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Lyttelton Port is still only operating at 40 percent of its full capacity, nine days after the Christchurch earthquake, but the Port company says its core services are all working and within a week it will be almost at full strength.

Monster Munch

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A digitally manipulated image of a excavator claw tangled with reinforcing cable, with a damaged concrete building in the background. The photographer comments, "The monster destroying the earthquake broken buildings close to the Lyttelton tunnel".

Gap Filler Project 25: Project Report

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The project report for Gap Filler Project 25, Dino-Sauna.

Fairfax Video, February 2011 (4)

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Aerial footage of Christchurch recorded the day after the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The footage shows damage to the Smith City car park, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, the CTV Building, the PGC Building, the Durham Street Methodist Church, the Lyttelton Timeball Station, the roads alongside the Avon River, and the ChristChurch Cathedral. It also shows New Zealand Army road blocks outside the hospital, crushed buses on Colombo Street, a Royal New Zealand Navy vessel in Lyttelton Harbour, rock fall on the Summit Road, collapsed cliffs in Sumner and Redcliffs, tents set up in a park, flooding in New Brighton, and liquefaction in QEII Park.

Christchurch Press Infographic: 2 March 2011 (3)

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A compliation of aerial photographs of Christchurch and Lyttelton showing damage caused by the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Christchurch Press Infographic: 8 March 2011, right

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A compliation of aerial photographs of Christchurch and Lyttelton showing damage caused by the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Christchurch Press Infographic: 8 March 2011, left

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A compliation of aerial photographs of Christchurch and Lyttelton showing damage caused by the 22 February 2011 earthquake.

Fairfax Video, October 2011 (2)

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A video of an interview with Andy Dodd, archaeologist at Underground Overground Archaeology, and Rewi Couch, representative for Te Hapu o Ngai Te Wheke, about the excavation of the site of the former Lyttelton Post Office on Norwich Quay. A Maori adze was found by the archaeologists deep beneath the concrete foundations of the building. The adze is a woodworking tool which indicates that early Maori settlers may have carved and launched waka on the site.

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:23 17:36:30

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Quake: Lyttelton: Del Hurley of Canterbury Coastguard getting food from navy ship for Diamond Harbour".

Town at the epicentre of the quake still stuggling

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One of the areas most affected by the February earthquake was the port town of Lyttelton, south of Christchurch.

Christchurch Press Image: Don Scott 2010:09:12 15:35:32

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Workmen repairing to remove dangerous rocks/boulders on Castle Hill above the Lyttelton tunnel road".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:22 14:51:51

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Heading over Bridle Path to Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:22 14:24:58

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Heading over Bridle Path to Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:22 14:28:42

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Heading over Bridle Path to Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:22 14:41:20

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Heading over Bridle Path to Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:22 14:31:49

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Heading over Bridle Path to Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:22 14:31:43

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Heading over Bridle Path to Lyttelton".

Lyttleton's port still has damaged but waterways on mend

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Christchurch's Lyttelton Port says business has picked up about five per cent, as shops replace stock lost in the earthquake.

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves, 2011:02:22 14:51:42

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Earthquake damage in central Christchurch after a 6.3 earthquake. Heading over Bridle Path to Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Iain McGregor, 2011:02:24 01:58:47

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Christchurch Earthquake.The RNZN Rhys Heaven-Smith Able Marine Tech 2nd Class at work in Lyttelton".

Christchurch Press Image: Kirk Hargreaves 2010:10:23 14:51:18

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Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Band Together in Christchurch's Hagley Park as a post-earthquake party. Singer from Lyttelton's The Eastern performing".