Editing Akaroa (section)

==Notable residents==
[[File:NZ - Akaroa - Frank Worsley bust.jpg|thumb|A bronze bust of Frank Worsley located in the Britomart Reserve, on the foreshore]]
* [[Jessie Buckland]] (1878–1939), photographer<ref>{{DNZB|last=Main|first=William|id=2b47|title=Jessie Lillian Buckland|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref>
* [[John Buckland (New Zealand politician)|John Buckland]] (1844–1909), politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Buckland, Jessie Lillian |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2b47/buckland-jessie-lillian |website=[[Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand]] |access-date=13 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Buckland, Jessie Lillian, 1878–1939 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22356136 |website=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=13 December 2021 |language=en-nz |date=1 January 1878}}</ref>
* [[Bob Parker (mayor)|Bob Parker]] (born 1953), former mayor of Banks Peninsula and former resident<ref name="Kia ora: Akaroa">{{cite news |last=Easther |first=Elisabeth |title=Kia ora: Akaroa |url= http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11193402 |access-date=18 February 2014 |work=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |date=31 January 2014 |location=Auckland}}</ref>
* [[William Penlington (mayor)|William Penlington]] (1832–1899), sawmiller, builder and mayor of Akaroa<ref>{{Macdonald Dictionary|716180|William Penlington|5 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[William Penlington (teacher)|William Penlington]] (1890–1982), school principal and educationalist<ref>{{DNZB|Boyd|Mary|4p7|William Arthur Greener Penlington|10 December 2011}}</ref>
* [[Hugh Wilson (New Zealand botanist)|Hugh Wilson]] (born 1945), botanist living at [[Hinewai Reserve]] over the hill from Akaroa<ref name="Kia ora: Akaroa" />
* [[Frank Worsley]] (1872–1943), sailor and explorer who served on [[Ernest Shackleton]]'s [[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] of 1914–1916, as captain of the ''[[Endurance (1912 ship)|Endurance]]''<ref>{{DNZB|last=Dennerly|first=P. Y.|id=3w28|title=Worsley, Frank Arthur|access-date=15 February 2014}}</ref>