Canterbury Plains

The Canterbury Plains are an area in New Zealand centred to the south of the city of Christchurch in the Canterbury Region. Their northern extremes are at the foot of the Hundalee Hills in the Hurunui District, and in the south they merge into the plains of North Otago beyond the Waitaki River.

Read more about Canterbury Plains:  Geography, Rivers, Fauna

Famous quotes containing the words canterbury and/or plains:

    Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
    —Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)

    The Plains are not forgiving. Anything that is shallow—the easy optimism of a homesteader; the false hope that denies geography, climate, history; the tree whose roots don’t reach ground water—will dry up and blow away.
    Kathleen Norris (b. 1947)