Hundalee

Hundalee is a rural locality in the Hurunui District of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It straddles the Conway River, the traditional boundary between Canterbury and Marlborough and is in the Hundalee Hills.^[1]

Although once a railway terminus, Hundalee today does not have a defined township as such; the place name refers to the rural properties in the area. One of these properties became the home of World War II hero Charles Upham after he returned from combat.

The railway line was opened to Hundalee from Parnassus in 1939 as work on the Main North Line from Christchurch crept north to meet a line being built southwards from Wharanui. In 1945, the full line was completed when the two ends met in Kaikoura. The railway still runs through Hundalee, but the TranzCoastal express passenger train does not stop. State Highway 1 also passes through Hundalee.

References

↑ "Place Name Detail: Hundalee". New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 12 November 2007.

Coordinates: 42°35′S 173°25′E / 42.583°S 173.417°E / -42.583; 173.417

Towns in the Hurunui District, Canterbury, New Zealand

Main Towns	Amberley (seat) Cheviot Culverden Hanmer Springs Waiau Waipara

Minor towns	Domett Greta Valley Hawarden Leithfield Motunau Omihi Parnassus Rotherham Waikari

Localities	Amberley Beach Balcairn Balmoral Beckenham Hills Blythe Valley Boyle Village Broomfield Caverhill Claverley Conway Flat Davaar Engineers Camp Ferniehurst Glasnevin Gore Bay Hawkswood Horsley Down Hurunui Hundalee Lake Sumner Leamington Leithfield Beach Lewis Pass Marble Point Masons Flat Medbury Mina Motunau Beach Mount Lyford Mouse Point Napenape Nonoti Pahau Phoebe Port Robinson Pyramid Valley Scargill Spotswood Spye Teviotdale The Peaks Virginia Weka Pass

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