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 southeast of Christchurch and north of the near-namesake town of Akaroa. A small long stream enters the bay at the settlement.
The names of both Akaroa and Little Akaloa mean long harbour in the southern dialect of Māori.
Demographics
Little Akaloa covers . It is part of the larger Eastern Bays-Banks Peninsula statistical area.
Little Akaloa had a population of 9 at the 2018 New Zealand census, unchanged since the 2013 census and the 2006 census., but a significant drop from its earlier population. Wise's New Zealand guide reported a population of 63 in 1969.