The long coastline of the Canterbury Bight runs almost without interruption from Banks Peninsula south to Timaru. The shingle beach is composed of material eroded from the Southern Alps and carried down rivers to the coast.
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Photograph by Lloyd Homer
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The Canterbury Bight is a
Kathaleen (not verified)
26 October 2010
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