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The city was named by the Canterbury Association, which settled the surrounding province of Canterbury. The name was suggested by John Robert Godley, who had attended Christ Church, Oxford and was agreed on at the first meeting of the association on 27 March 1848.

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A kiwi is the National bird Of New Zealand, and it is endemic. That is where the name originates.

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