Category:Moncks Cave

**Moncks Cave**
	cave located in Redcliffs, Christchurch
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Instance of	cave; geographic location;
Location	Christchurch City, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Street address	Main Road and Cave Terrace, Redcliffs, Christchurch 8081;
Heritage designation	Heritage New Zealand Category 1 historic place listing (2009–);
Time of discovery or invention	1889;
	43° 33′ 51.84″ S, 172° 44′ 20.4″ E
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Moncks Cave, located at the junction of Main Road and Cave Terrace, Redcliffs, Christchurch, is part of the significant Maori cultural heritage landscape of the Raekura (Redcliffs) and Te Ihutai (Avon-Heathcote Estuary) area. It is a former occupation site strongly associated with the coastal and estuarine environment, which has served as a traditionally important, longstanding and major mahinga kai resource for successive generations of Maori. The cave is registered by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category I structure, with registration number 9067.