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about Dunedin

Dunedin is the second largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, located in coastal Otago. Known in Maori as Otepoti, the city is built on the hills and valleys surrounding Otago Harbour. The harbour and hills are the remnants of an extinct volcano. Dunedin is the home of The University of Otago.

Dunedin geography

Dunedin City has a land area of 3314.8 km², about 10% larger than Cambridgeshire, England, and a little smaller than Cornwall. It is the largest city in land area in New Zealand. The Dunedin City Council boundaries since 1989 have extended to Middlemarch in the west, Waikouaiti in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east and south-east, and Henley and Taieri Mouth in the south-west.

Dunedin is also home to Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records, with a slope of 1:2.9 (i.e. for every 2.9 m horizontally the street rises 1 m). The long since abandoned Maryhill Cablecar route had a similar gradient close to its Mornington depot. The Dunedin skyline is dominated by a ring of hills which form the remnants of a volcanic crater. Notable among these hills are Mt. Cargill (700 m), Flagstaff (680 m), Saddle Hill (480 m), and Harbour Cone (320 m).

Inner suburbs

(clockwise from due south of the city centre)

Musselburgh; St. Kilda; St. Clair; Kew; Forbury; Caversham; Maryhill; Mornington; Halfway Bush; Roslyn; Wakari; Maori Hill; Glenleith; Pine Hill; North East Valley; Opoho; Ravensbourne; Vauxhall; Shiel Hill; Anderson's Bay.

Outer suburbs

(clockwise from due south of the city centre)

Waldronville; Green Island; Abbotsford; Fairfield; Waitati; St. Leonards; Macandrew Bay.

Towns within Dunedin City Limits

(clockwise from due south of the city centre)

Brighton; Taieri Mouth; Henley; Allanton; East Taieri; Mosgiel; Outram; Middlemarch; Waikouaiti; Karitane; Warrington; Port Chalmers; Otakou; Portobello.

180° view of Dunedin shot from the hills on the west. Mount Cargill is at the extreme left of picture, and the Otago Peninsula is beyond the harbour to the centre. (Larger version.)

Dunedin history

Dunedin was founded in 1848 as a Scottish settlement by the Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland. The town's name comes from Dun Eideann, the Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. The University of Otago, the oldest university in New Zealand, was founded in Dunedin in 1869. Dunedin became wealthy during the Central Otago goldrush which began at Gabriel’s_Gully near Lawrence in 1861. During the 20th century, influence and activity moved north to the other centres ("the drift north"), but by the end of the century Dunedin had re-established its identity as a centre of excellence in tertiary education and research.

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