Glentui | |
Settlement Type: | Rural Area |
Coordinates: | -43.22°N 172.24°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | New Zealand |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Canterbury |
Subdivision Type2: | Territorial authority |
Subdivision Name2: | Waimakariri District |
Subdivision Type3: | Ward |
Subdivision Name3: | Oxford-Ohoka Ward |
Seat Type: | Electorates |
Seat: | Kaikoura Te Tai Tonga (Maori electorate)[1] |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | NZST |
Utc Offset1: | +12 |
Timezone1 Dst: | NZDT |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +13 |
Postal Code Type: | Postcode |
Postal Code: | 7495 |
Area Code: | 03 |
Glentui is a small rural community in the Waimakariri District, New Zealand. It is well known for Glentui Meadows, a facility frequently used by youth groups and schools for camping.[2]
Close to Gentui was Birch Hill Station, a sheep station that was taken up by Theophilus Samuel Mannering in the nineteenth century. George Edward Mannering, who would later become an mountaineer, was born here in 1862.
Glentui is part of the wider Okuku statistical area.
The average temperature in summer is 16.2 °C, and in winter is 5.9 °C.[3]