Bird-eye View of Banks Peninsula (New Zealand)
using ASTER Ortho Image

This is a bird-eye view image of Banks Peninsula in New Zealand obtained by ASTER on 10th November 2006.
The image views from the east to the west.
The height is extended by three times.

This peninsula was created by volcanic activity in the Miocene epochapproximately 1.1 million years ago.

Banks Peninsula faces the east coast of South Island in New Zealand, about 80 km away from Chirstcharch, the largest city in South Island.
This conspicuous geology feature was formed by the seawater, which intruded into the craters of Lyttlton volcano (the eastern side) and Akaroa volcano (the western side), and by the following corrosion in glacial epoch.
The name of peninsula came from Sir Joseph Banks, a British biology scholar who sailed with Captain Cook.

Now, Banks Peninsula is maintained as a tourist site. Akaloa-city is the only place in New Zealand where the French colonized. The street's names of Akaloa are evidence of its legacy.