Editing Banks Peninsula (section)

=== Pigeon Bay ===
[[File:Pigeon Bay 27.jpg|thumb|Pigeon Bay (December 2020)]]

Pigeon Bay has a walking track which follows the eastern side of Pigeon bay out to the head of the bay. It takes about 4 or 5 hours to walk there and back. It has spectacular coastal views.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pigeon Bay Walkway|url=https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/canterbury/places/banks-peninsula-area/things-to-do/pigeon-bay-walkway/|access-date=21 December 2020|website=www.doc.govt.nz|language=en-nz}}</ref> There are a number of holiday homes in Pigeon bay as well as a yacht club and a camping ground. Pigeon Bay most likely gained its name from early whalers seeing the large number of pigeons ([[kererū]]) in the forests of Pigeon Bay. The first reference to Pigeon Bay was in 1836.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Ogilvie|first=Gordon|title=Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills|publisher=Canterbury University Press|year=2017|location=New Zealand|pages=206–207}}</ref>

Captain Langlois celebrated his "purchase" of Banks Peninsula on 9 August 1840 by raising the French flag and conducting a 101 gun salute at Pigeon Bay.<ref name=":2" />

HMS ''Britomart'' visited Pigeon Bay towards the end of August 1840 conducting the first hydrographic survey and reinforcing British sovereignty of Banks Peninsula.<ref name=":2" />