Christchurch
The name was established in the age of colonialism (British Empire) after Oxford College Christ Church. The naming, already controversial at the time, was made official by the Canterbury Association on March 27, 1848, and refers to its founder John Robert Godley, who wanted to honor his alma mater with it. The Māori name of the city is Ōtautahi, named after a Māori chief who settled on the Avon River/Ōtakaro. In the 1930s, a renaming to that effect was sought; Ngāi Tahu also advocated the name Karaitiana, a transliteration of the English word christian.
Christchurch has a pure land area of 1415 km² and counted 341,469 inhabitants at the Census in 2013. This makes Christchurch the third largest city in New Zealand in terms of area and the second largest in terms of population. With a population density of 241.3 inhabitants per km², the city is in the middle of all New Zealand cities.
The urban area of Christchurch is bounded by the Waimakariri to the northwest and the Selwyn District to the southwest. The rest of the urban area is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.
Christchurch (Māori: Ōtautahi), officially Christchurch City (also known as Garden City), is the largest city on the South Island of New Zealand and also an independent territorial authority in the Canterbury region.
The urban area of Christchurch is bounded by the Waimakariri to the northwest and the Selwyn District to the southwest. The rest of the urban area is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.
Christchurch's city center is located northwest of the Banks Peninsula and borders the Canterbury Plains to the west. The Avon River/Ōtakaro flows through the city, the much larger river, the Waimakariri River passes the city in the north and is also the natural border of the city area to the north.
Lyttleton
Lyttelton (Maori Te whaka raupo) is a small port town in the Christchurch City area on the South Island of New Zealand. Mostly called Port Cooper or Port Victoria during its founding, the town was officially renamed Lyttelton in 1858 in honor of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, who was a prominent figure in the Canterbury Association at the time.
Lyttelton is located about 10 km southeast of Christchurch city center, on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour in the caldera of a former volcano that formed the Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills lying between Christchurch and Lyttelton. The town is hemmed in from west to east by the steep slopes of the former caldera, which northwest of Lyttelton marks the highest point of the Port Hills at 499 meters. Open to the south is the harbor, which serves, among other things, as a seaport for the city of Christchurch. It is about 8 km from the harbor to the Pacific Ocean access east of the city.
Southwest of Lyttelton, there is an uninhabited island in Lyttelton Harbour called Quail Island, and a few other smaller settlements besides the town, of which Governors Bay and Diamond Harbour are the best known.
Haglot and Meridia
Already in the 1st volume of Charly Cutter and the mysterious Loona is the talk of Haglot as well as Meridia, both magical places that could not be more different. While Haglot is an offshore island in front of New Zealand and belongs to New Zealand - even if hardly a non-magical soul has set foot on this island, Meridia belongs to Australia and can be found on Tasmania.
Since the first settlement around 1850, the two magical places have been in a kind of clinch, because while in Haglot mainly the dark arts are taught, in Meridia they stick to teaching the offspring mainly white magic, in order to become great witches and wizards one day.
Charly's mother was still taught in Haglot before the magical settlement fell into oblivion ... and yet Charly cannot avoid dealing with the legacy of his mother but also the legacy of this darkest place on the map of the magical world because this is where everything started.
But at the latest in the 2nd volume of Charly Cutter's adventures we will learn much more about the two magical places, so that we do not want to put any more information about these magical places online for now ...