Denali Street in Halswell – Named after Denali National Park & Reserve in Alaska. In the Knights Stream Park subdivision where streets have been named with a common theme of World Heritage sites and national and major parks around the world.
A small amount of information from the library website. Denali is a native word meaning the tall one or big mountain. I googled the mountain and I hadn’t realised that it was the same mountain that was called Mt McKinley. The locals had always called it Denali but in 1896 someone decided to name it Mt McKinley after William McKinley. In 1975 the name was changed back to Denali by the Alaska Board of Geographic Names but the United States Board of Geographic Names refused to acknowledge this. In 2015 the US Board finally agreed that the name is Denali but several politicians protested this.
Many years ago when I was working at Barrington Postbank I met a young woman with the name Denali and she explained why she was given the name. At least one person on my Facebook will know this woman. I would have been at Barrington Postbank in the late 1980s so it was a few years ago.
There are 16 houses on this street built in 2015 but none stood out for me. There is a footpath on both sides of the street which I always like. There is a walkway that goes to Knights Stream Park and another walkway that goes to another street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 