Little Akaloa

{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Little Akaloa

| other_name = Little Akaroa

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| population_total = 9

| population_as_of = 2018 Census

| population_density_km2 = auto

| image_skyline = Little Akaloa Bay, Little Akaloa, Canterbury, New Zealand 03.jpg

| image_caption = Little Akaloa Bay

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| pushpin_map = New Zealand Banks Peninsula

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location of Little Akaloa on Banks Peninsula

| coordinates = {{coord|43|40|30|S|172|59|30|E|display=inline, title}}

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = New Zealand

| subdivision_type1= Region

| subdivision_name1= Canterbury Region

| subdivision_type2= District

| subdivision_name2= Christchurch City

| subdivision_type3= Ward

| subdivision_name3= Banks Peninsula

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| blank_name = Local iwi

| blank_info = Ngāi Tahu

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Little Akaloa is a small settlement and bay on Banks Peninsula, in the South Island of New Zealand.

The settlement is sited at the end of the bay, a long, finger-shaped indentation in the northeastern coast of the peninsula, some {{convert|35|km|mi}} southeast of Christchurch and {{convert|12|km|mi}} north of the near-namesake town of Akaroa. A small {{convert|6|km|mi|adj=on}} long stream enters the bay at the settlement.Dowling, P. (ed.) (2004). ’’Reed New Zealand atlas’’. Auckland: Reed Publishing. {{ISBN|0 7900 0952 8}} Map 83.

The names of both Akaroa and Little Akaloa mean long harbour in the South Island dialects of Māori, which would be spelled Whangaroa in the standard language, cognate with other Polynesian place names like Hanga Roa in Rapa Nui or Fā‘aroa in Tahitian.