Editing Akaroa (section)

{{Short description|Town in Canterbury, New Zealand}}
{{For|the electorate|Akaroa (New Zealand electorate)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=December 2015}}
{{Infobox settlement
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| name                    = Akaroa
| other_name              = Port Louis-Philippe
| area_total_km2          = 2.03
| area_footnotes          = <ref name="Area"/>
| population_footnotes    = {{NZ population data 2023 SA2||||y}}
| population_total        = {{NZ population data 2023 SA2|Akaroa|y}}
| population_as_of        = {{NZ population data 2023 SA2|||y}}
| population_density_km2  = auto
| image_skyline           = Akaroa, New Zealand.jpg
| image_caption           = Akaroa township and main wharf, in 2004
| map_alt                 =
| map_caption             = 
| pushpin_map             = New Zealand Banks Peninsula
| pushpin_label_position  =
| pushpin_map_alt         =
| pushpin_map_caption     = Location of Akaroa in Banks Peninsula
| coordinates             = {{coord|43|48|15|S|172|58|00|E|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes   =
| subdivision_type        = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name        = New Zealand
| subdivision_type1       = Region
| subdivision_name1       = [[Canterbury, New Zealand|Canterbury Region]]
| subdivision_type2       = District
| subdivision_name2       = [[Christchurch City Council|Christchurch City]]
| subdivision_type3       = Ward
| subdivision_name3       = Banks Peninsula
| subdivision_type4       = Community
| subdivision_name4       = Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula 
| seat_type               = Electorates
| seat                    = {{ubl|[[Banks Peninsula (New Zealand electorate)|Banks Peninsula]]|[[Te Tai Tonga]] (Māori)}}
| leader_title            = Territorial Authority
| leader_name             = [[Christchurch City Council]]
| leader_title1           = Regional council
| leader_name1            = [[Environment Canterbury]]
| leader_title2           = [[Mayor of Christchurch]]
| leader_name2            = {{NZ officeholder data|Christchurch City Mayor|y}}
| leader_title3           = [[Banks Peninsula (New Zealand electorate)|Banks Peninsula MP]]
| leader_name3            = {{NZ officeholder data|Banks Peninsula MP|y}}
| leader_title4           = [[Te Tai Tonga|Te Tai Tonga MP]]
| leader_name4            = {{NZ officeholder data|Te Tai Tonga MP|y}}
| established_title1      = European settlement
| established_date1       = 18 August 1840
| founder                 = [[Jean François Langlois]]
| postal_code_type        = [[Postcodes in New Zealand|Postcode]]
| postal_code             = 7520
| blank_name              = Local [[iwi]]
| blank_info              = [[Ngāi Tahu]]
}}

'''Akaroa''' is a small town on [[Banks Peninsula]] in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand, situated within a harbour of the same name.  The name Akaroa is [[Ngāi Tahu|Kāi Tahu]] [[Māori language|Māori]] for "Long Harbour", which would be spelled {{lang|mi|Whangaroa}} in standard Māori. The area was also named ''Port Louis-Philippe'' by [[French colonial empire#Second French colonial empire (post-1830)|French settlers]] after the reigning [[King of the French|French king]] [[Louis Philippe I]].

The town is {{convert|84|km|mi}}<!--according to AA Times and Distances facility--> by road from [[Christchurch]] and is the terminus of [[State Highway 75 (New Zealand)|State Highway 75]]. It is set on a sheltered harbour and is overlooked and surrounded by the remnants of an eruptive centre of the [[miocene]] [[Banks Peninsula Volcano]].{{sfn|Royal Society|February 1958|pages=207ff}}