He was actually five Kms south of the nearly French Village of Akaroa at the site of the 1840 signing of the treaty with Ngai Tahu at Onuku Marae.
Now for those who consider Onuku as Akaroa? Three Kms to the north of that still french influenced village with its narrow streets, lies another small settlement that once supported a Dairy Factory, Takamatua, or The Chief’s Garden, that in the earliest days of european settlement was referred to as “German Bay” due to the number of German families who moved there following the vanquishing of the settlers disembarked by the too late French colonisation effort that included German settlers along with the French. Breitmeyer and Sunkell were not French

The biggest February 6th activity of recent years is Okains Bay, a settlement that supports its own Waka, over the summit from Akaroa Harbour.

Of course a propaganda outfit that masquerades as a leading media outfit would not ever admit being a purveyor of fake news now would it.