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Dunedin
Ōtepoti
Coordinates: New Zealand urban areaPopulation114,700 (2005 estimate)ExtentMosgiel to Port ChalmersTerritorial Authorities of New ZealandNameDunedin CityPopulation118,683http://www.stats.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/C9A86DBD-5B34-402D-8947-7F705104026B/0/RegionalSummaryTablesTerritorialAuthority.xlsLand area3314.8km²Extenturban area, and to
Middlemarch,
Waikouaiti and the
Taieri RiverList of regions in New ZealandNameOtago Regional Council

Dunedin (Ōtepoti in Maori) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the region of Otago. It is New Zealand's fifth largest city in terms of population, it is the hub of the fifth-largest urban area and the largest in size of council boundary areas. For historical and cultural reasons, Dunedin is considered one of the country's four main centres.

The city stands on the hills and valleys surrounding the head of Otago Harbour. The harbour and hills are the remnants of an extinct volcano. It is the home of the University of Otago.

History Modern archaeology favours a date round 1100 AD for the first human (Māori) occupation of New Zealand with population concentrated along the south east coast. A camp site at Kaikai's Beach, near Otago Heads, has been dated from about that time. There are numerous Archaic (moa hunter) sites in what is now Dunedin, several of them large and permanently occupied, particularly in the fourteenth century. Population contracted but expanded again with the evolution of the Classic culture which saw the building of several pa (Maori), fortified settlements, notably Pukekura at (Taiaroa Head), about 1650. There was a settlement in what is now central Dunedin (Ōtepoti) occupied as late as about 1785 but abandoned by 1826.

Maori tradition tells first of people called Kahui Tipua living in the area, then Te Rapuwai, semi-legendary but considered to be historical. The next arrivals were Waitaha followed by Kati Mamoe late in the sixteenth century and then Kai Tahu (Ngai Tahu in modern standard Māori language) who arrived in the mid seventeenth century. These migration waves have often been represented as 'invasions' in European accounts but modern scholarship has cast doubt on that. They were probably migrations like those of the European which incidentally resulted in bloodshed.

The sealer John Boultbee recorded in the 1820s that the 'Kaika Otargo' (settlements around and near Otago Harbour) were the oldest and largest in the south.

Captain James Cook stood off what is now the coast of Dunedin between February 25 and March 5 1770, naming Cape Saunders on the Otago Peninsula and Saddle Hill. He reported penguins and seals in the vicinity, which led sealers to visit from the beginning of the 19th century. The early years of sealing saw a feud between sealers and local Maori, from 1810-1823, sparked by an incident on Otago Harbour, but William Tucker became the first European to settle in the area in 1815. Permanent European occupation dates from 1831 when the Weller brothers founded their whaling station at Otago, modern Otakou on the Otago Harbour. Epidemics reduced the Maori population. By the late 1830s the harbour was an international whaling port. Johnny Jones (Pioneer) established a farming settlement and a mission station, the South Island's first, at Waikouaiti in 1840.

The Lay Association of the Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900) founded Dunedin at the head of Otago Harbour in 1848 as the principal town of its Scotland settlement. The name comes from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. Charles Kettle the city's surveyor, instructed to emulate the characteristics of Edinburgh, produced a striking, 'Romantic' design. The result was both grand and quirky streets as the builders struggled and sometimes failed to construct his bold vision across the challenging landscape. Captain William Cargill, a veteran of the war against Napoleon, was the secular leader. The Reverend Thomas Burns (New Zealand), a nephew of the poet Robert Burns, was the spiritual guide.

In 1852, Dunedin became the capital of the Otago Province, the whole of New Zealand from the Waitaki River south. In 1861 the discovery of gold at Gabriel's Gully, to the southwest, led to a rapid influx of population and saw Dunedin become New Zealand's first city by growth of population in 1865. The new arrivals included many Irish, but also Italians, French, Germans, Jews and Chinese.

Dunedin and the region industrialised and consolidated, and the Main South Line connected the city with Christchurch in 1878 and Invercargill in 1879. The University of Otago, the oldest university in New Zealand, was founded in Dunedin in 1869. Otago Girls' High School (1871) is said to be the oldest state secondary school for girls in the Southern Hemisphere. Between 1881 and 1957, Dunedin was home to Dunedin cable tramway system, being both one of the first and last such systems in the world. Early in the 1880s the inauguration of the frozen meat industry, with the first shipment leaving from Port Chalmers, saw the beginning of a later great national industry.

After ten years of gold rushes the economy slowed but Julius Vogel's immigration and development scheme brought thousands more especially to Dunedin and Otago before recession set in again in the 1880s. In these first times of prosperity many institutions and businesses were established, New Zealand's first daily newspaper, art school, medical school and public art gallery Dunedin Public Art Gallery among them. There was also a remarkable architectural flowering producing many substantial and ornamental buildings. R.A. Lawson's First Church, Dunedin and Knox Church are notable examples, as are buildings by Maxwell Bury and Francis Petre. The other visual arts also flourished under the leadership of W.M. Hodgkins. The city's landscape and burgeoning townscape were vividly portrayed by George O'Brien 1821-1888. From the mid 1890s the economy revived. Institutions such as the Otago Settlers Museum and the Hocken Collections – the first of their kind in New Zealand – were founded. More notable buildings such as the Railway Station and Olveston (house) were erected. New energy in the visual arts represented by G.P. Nerli culminated in the career of Frances Hodgkins.

By 1900, Dunedin was no longer the country's biggest city. Influence and activity moved north to the other centres ("the drift north"), a trend which continued for much of the following century. Despite this, the university continued to expand, and a student quarter became established. At the same time people started to notice Dunedin's mellowing, the ageing of its grand old buildings, with writers like E.H. McCormick pointing out its atmospheric charm. In the 1930s and early 1940s a new generation of artists such as Toss Woollaston, Doris Lusk, Anne Hamblett, Colin McCahon and Patrick Hayman once again represented the best of the country's talent. The Second World War saw the dispersal of these painters, but not before McCahon had met a very youthful poet, James K. Baxter, in a central city studio.

Modern Dunedin After World War II, prosperity and population growth revived, although Dunedin trailed as the fourth 'main centre'. A generation reacting against Victorianism started demolishing its buildings, and many were lost, notably the Stock Exchange in 1969. Although the university continued to expand, the city's population growth slowed and then contracted, notably from 1976 to 1981. This was, however, a culturally vibrant time with the university's new privately endowed arts fellowships, bringing such luminaries as James K Baxter, Ralph Hotere, Janet Frame, and Hone Tuwhare to the city.

During the 1980s the city's popular music scene blossomed, with many acts, such as The Chills, The Clean, The Verlaines, and Straitjacket Fits, gaining national and international recognition. The term "The Dunedin Sound" was coined to describe the 1960s-influenced guitar-led music which came out of the city at this time. These bands were at the forefront of a much larger and diverse music scene which was the envy of far larger cities in New Zealand. The music scene continues today, ranging from rock bands to reggae, with a CD released annually to allow people to "sample the sounds". Popular venues for Dunedin music are those such as Bath St Nightclub, Refuel (Found on the University of Otago campus), The Arc Cafe, Sammy's Nightclub, and so on.

By 1990, population decline had steadied and Dunedin had re-invented itself as a 'heritage city' with its main streets refurbished in Victorian style, and R.A. Lawson's Municipal Chambers in the Octagon, Dunedin handsomely restored. It was also recognised as a centre of excellence in tertiary education and research. The university and polytechnic's growth accelerated. North Dunedin became New Zealand's largest and most exuberant residential campus. The city has continued to refurbish itself, embarking on major developments and redevelopments of the art gallery, railway station, and Otago Settlers Museum.

Dunedin has flourishing niche industries including engineering, software engineering, bio-technology and fashion. Port Chalmers on Otago Harbour provides Dunedin with deep-water port facilities. The port is served by the Port Chalmers Branch, a branch line railway that diverges from the Main South Line that runs from Christchurch, New Zealand via Dunedin to Invercargill.

The cityscape glitters with gems of Victorian and Edwardian architecture - the legacy of the city's gold-rush affluence - many including First Church and Larnach Castle designed by one of New Zealand's most eminent architects Robert Lawson (architect). Other prominent buildings include Olveston and the magnificent Dunedin Railway Station. Other not-to-be missed attractions include Baldwin Street, Dunedin, the world's steepest street; the famous Captain Cook Tavern; and the local Speight's brewery. Tourists and students alike appreciate tours of the Cadbury-Schweppes chocolate factory.

Dunedin is also notable now as centre for ecotourism. Uniquely, the world's only mainland Royal Albatross colony and several penguin and pinniped colonies lie within the city boundaries on Otago Peninsula. To the south, on the western side of Lake Waihola, lie the Sinclair Wetlands.

The thriving tertiary student population has led to a vibrant youth culture (so named 'Scarfies'), consisting of the before mentioned music scene, and more recently a burgeoning boutique fashion industry. A very strong visual arts community also lives in Dunedin and its environs, notably in Port Chalmers and the other settlements which dot the coast of the Otago Harbour, and also in communities such as Waitati.Sport is catered for in Dunedin by the floodlit Rugby Union and cricket venue of Carisbrook (stadium), the New Caledonian Ground soccer and athletics (track and field) stadium near the University at Logan Park, Dunedin, the large Edgar Centre indoor sports centre, and numerous golf courses and parks. There are also Forbury Park horseracing circuit in the south of the city and several others within a few kilometres. St Clair Beach is a well-known surfing venue. Dunedin has four public swimming pools: Moana Pool, Port Chalmers Pool, Mosgiel and St Clair Pool.

Transport in Dunedin Dunedin features the world's most southern motorway, the ten-kilometre section of New Zealand State Highway network (SH1) from the centre of the city towards the southern suburb of Mosgiel, New Zealand. Dunedin is the northeastern terminus of the Southern Scenic Route tourist highway to The Catlins, Invercargill and Fiordland.

Although Dunedin's Dunedin Railway Station, once the nation's busiest, is no longer served by regular commercial passenger trains, it is used by local tourist services. The most prominent of these is the Taieri Gorge Limited, a popular and famous train operated daily by the Taieri Gorge Railway along the former Otago Central Railway through the scenic Taieri Gorge. Taieri Gorge Railway also operates to Palmerston, New Zealand once weekly. The station is also sometimes visited by excursions organised by other heritage railway societies, and by trains chartered by cruise ships docking at Port Chalmers.

Dunedin International Airport Dunedin International Airport is located southwest of the city on the Taieri Plains at Momona. It is primarily a domestic terminal, with regular flights to and from Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington, Rotorua, Palmerston North, and seasonal flights to and from Queenstown, New Zealand, Wanaka, and Fiordland, but it also has regular international flights arriving from and departing to Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Coolangatta.

Media in Dunedin Local media in Dunedin include the daily newspaper The Otago Daily Times, several local weekly and bi-weekly community newspapers, local radio stations (including the University's station, Radio One (New Zealand)), and Channel 9 (New Zealand) a local television station.

Geography , at the end of Otago Harbour.Dunedin City has a land area of 1 E9 m², slightly larger than the United States state of Rhode Island or the England county of Cambridgeshire, 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, New Zealand in the west, Waikouaiti in the north, the Pacific Ocean in the east and south-east, and the Waipori/Taieri River and the township of Henley, New Zealand in the south-west. It is now the fourth-largest city in the world by land area.

Dunedin is also home to Baldwin Street, Dunedin, which, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is the steepest street in the world. Its gradient is 1 in 2.9. The long since abandoned Maryhill Cable car (railway) route had a similar gradient close to its Mornington depot. The Dunedin skyline is dominated by a ring of (traditionally seven) hills which form the remnants of a volcanic crater. Notable among them are Mount Cargill (700 m), Flagstaff, New Zealand (680 m), Saddle Hill (480 m), Signal Hill (390 m), and Harbour Cone (320 m).

The heart of the city lies on the relatively flat land to the west of the head of the Otago Harbour. Here is The Octagon, Dunedin - once a swamp, it was drained in the late nineteenth century to create a city centre. The initial settlement of the city took place to the north of this swamp and further south on the other side of Bell Hill, a large outcrop which had to be excavated in order to provide easy access between the two parts of the settlement. The central city stretches away from this point in a largely northeast-southwest direction, with the main streets of George Street, Dunedin and Princes Street meeting at The Octagon. Here they are joined by Stuart Street, Dunedin, which runs orthogonal to them, from the Dunedin Railway Station in the southeast, and steeply up to the suburb of Roslyn in the northwest. Many of the older, more established buildings in the city are located towards the northern end of this central area on the floodplains of the Water of Leith, New Zealand, and on the inner ring of lower hills which surround the central city (most of these hills, such as Maori Hill, Pine Hill, and Maryhill, rise to some 200 metres above the plain).

Beyond the inner range of hills lie Dunedin's outer suburbs, notably to the northwest, beyond Roslyn. This direction contains Taieri Road and Three Mile Hill, which between them formed the original road route to the Taieri Plains. The modern State Highway 1 (New Zealand) follows a different route, passing through Caversham in the west and out past Saddle Hill. Lying between Saddle Hill and Caversham are the outer suburbs of Green Island, New Zealand. Between Green Island and Roslyn lies the steep-sided valley of the Kaikorai Stream, which is today a residential and light industrial area. Suburban settlements – mostly regarded as separate townships – also lie along both edges of the Otago Harbour. Notable among these are Portobello, New Zealand and Macandrew Bay, New Zealand, on the Otago Peninsula coast, and Port Chalmers on the opposite side of the harbour. Port Chalmers provides Dunedin's main deep-water port, including the city's container port.

The hinterland within Dunedin city encompasses a variety of different landforms. To the southwest lie the Taieri Plains, the broad, fertile lowland floodplains of the Taieri River and its major tributary the Waipori River. These are moderately heavily settled, and contain the towns of Mosgiel, New Zealand, East Taieri, and Allanton, New Zealand. They are separated from the coast by a range of low hills rising to some 300 m. Inland from the Taieri Plain is rough hill country. Close to the plain, much of this is forested, notably around Berwick, New Zealand and Lake Mahinerangi, and also around the Silverpeaks Range which lies northwest of the Dunedin urban area. Beyond this, the land becomes drier and opens out into grass and tussock grass-covered land. A high, broad valley, the Strath-Taieri lies in Dunedin's far northwest, containing the town of Middlemarch, New Zealand, one of the area's few concentrations of population.

To the north of the city's urban area is undulating hill country containing several small, mainly coastal, settlements, including Waitati, Warrington, New Zealand, Seacliff and Waikouaiti. State Highway 1 (New Zealand) winds steeply through a series of hills here, notably the Kilmog. These hills can be considered a coastal extension of the Silverpeaks Range.

To the east, Dunedin City includes the entirety of the Otago Peninsula, a long finger of land that formed the southeastern rim of the Dunedin Volcano. The peninsula is lightly settled, almost entirely along the harbour coast, and much of it is maintained as a natural habitat by the Otago Peninsula Trust. The peninsula contains several fine beaches, and is home to a considerable number of rare species, such as penguins, pinnipeds, and shag (bird)s. Most importantly, it contains the world's only mainland breeding colony of Royal Albatross, at Taiaroa Head on the peninsula's northeastern point.

Climate The climate of Dunedin in general is temperate, however the city is recognised as having a large number of microclimates and the weather conditions often vary between suburbs mostly due to the city's topographical layout. It is also greatly modified by its proximity to the ocean. This leads to warm summers and cool winters. Winter can be frosty, but significant snowfall is uncommon (perhaps every two or three years), except in the inland hill suburbs such as Halfway Bush and Wakari, which tend to receive a few days of snowfall each year. Spring can feature "four seasons in a day" weather, but from November to April it is generally settled and mild. Temperatures during summer can top 30°Celsius, but temperatures in the high 30s are rare.

Dunedin has relatively low rainfall in comparison to many of New Zealand's cities, with only some 750 mm recorded per year. It has a somewhat unwarranted reputation for damp weather, probably due to its rainfall occurring in drizzle over a larger number of days, whereas northern centres such as Auckland and Wellington receive more rain overall through heavy downpours on relatively fewer days. Dunedin is one of the cloudiest centres in the country, however recording approximately 1700 hours of bright sunshine per annum. Prevailing winds are from the south (cool, damp), and from the northwest (hot and dry in summer, cold and dry in winter). The circle of hills surrounding the inner city shelters the inner city from much of Otago's prevailing weather, often resulting in the main urban area having completely different weather conditions to the rest of Otago.

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List of Dunedin suburbs Inner suburbs (clockwise from the city centre, starting at due north)Woodhaugh; Glenleith; Ross Creek; Dalmore; Pine Hill; Mt Cargill; Normanby; Mt Mera; North East Valley; Opoho; Dunedin North; Ravensbourne; Highcliff; Shiel Hill; Waverley; Vauxhall; Ocean Grove (Tomahawk); Tainui; Andersons Bay; Musselburgh; South Dunedin; St Kilda; St Clair; Corstorphine; Kew; Forbury; Caversham; Concord; Maryhill; Mornington; Kaikorai Valley; Belleknowes; Roslyn; Kaikorai; Wakari; Maori Hill; Anderson's Bay; Halfway Bush; Fernhill; Kenmure.

Outer suburbs (clockwise from the city centre, starting at due north)Burkes; St. Leonards; Broad Bay; Company Bay; Macandrew Bay, New Zealand; Burnside; Green Island, New Zealand; Waldronville; Saddle Hill; Sunny Vale; Fairfield; Green Island, New Zealand#Abbotsford; Bradford; Glenross; Brockville; Halfway Bush; Helensburgh.

Towns within Dunedin City limits (clockwise from the city centre, starting at due north)Waitati; Waikouaiti; Karitane; Seacliff; Warrington, New Zealand; Purakanui; Long Beach, New Zealand; Aramoana; Deborah Bay; Carey's Bay; Port Chalmers; Suburbs of Dunedin, New Zealand#Roseneath and Sawyers Bay; Suburbs of Dunedin, New Zealand#Roseneath and Sawyers Bay; Otakou; Portobello, New Zealand; Brighton, New Zealand; Taieri Mouth, New Zealand; Henley, New Zealand; Allanton; East Taieri; Momona; Outram, New Zealand; Mosgiel, New Zealand; West Taieri; Waipori; Middlemarch, New Zealand; Hyde, New Zealand.

Technically, since local council reorganisation in the late 1980s, these are suburbs, but it is rare for Dunedinites to describe these places as suburbs. They are usually regarded locally as towns or townships, and none has the usual qualities associated with suburbs. All are separated by a considerable distance of open countryside from the central Dunedin urban area.

Panoramas Noted inhabitants The arts

Thomas Bracken (21 December 1843 – 16 February 1898), the noted late-19th century poet who wrote the National Anthems God Defend New Zealand and who was the first person to publish the phrase "God's Own Country".
Illustrator and engraver John Buckland Wright.
Māori sculptor Carissa Proffit (born 1974), who works in Oamaru stone.
Nobel Prize short-listee Janet Frame, born there in 1924, died there in 2004: NZ Edge biography.
Australian war artist H. Septimus Power was born in Dunedin in 1877.
Writer James K. Baxter was born in Dunedin in 1926 and wrote many of his plays there in the 1960s in association with Rosalie and Patric Carey's Globe Theatre, Dunedin.
Cartoonist David Low lived in Dunedin before making his fame in London.
Caricature artist Murray Webb remains a resident.
Māori painter Ralph Hotere lives and works in Port Chalmers.
Painters Grahame Sydney, Jeffrey Harris and Claire Beynon all live in Dunedin.
Actor Sam Neill has close associations with Dunedin. He was raised to the west of Dunedin, in Queenstown, New Zealand, Central Otago, where he still resides.
Playwright Roger Hall lived and wrote in Dunedin for several years.
Prominent architects Francis Petre and Robert Lawson (architect) both lived and worked in Dunedin.
Many of New Zealand’s top bands of the 1980s and early 1990s started out in Dunedin, establishing the Dunedin Sound. These include The Chills, The Clean, Straitjacket Fits, Sneaky Feelings, The 3Ds and Toy Love, and musicians Martin Phillipps and David Kilgour (musician).
Malaysian novelist John Ling is a resident.
Frances Hodgkins (1869 – 1947), New Zealand's most celebrated expatriate painter, was born in Dunedin, trained at the Dunedin School of Art and first matured here as an artist.
Alfred Henry O'Keeffe (1858-1941, a prominent artist during the early 20th Century
Colin McCahon (1919 – 1987), New Zealand's best regarded native-born painter, was brought up in Dunedin from infancy, trained at the Dunedin School of Art and first matured there as an artist.
Children's book illustrators Robyn Belton and David Elliot currently live in Dunedin, David in Port Chalmers.
Short story writer O. E. Middleton moved to Dunedin for the 1970 Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago, and still resides in Dunedin.
Award winning poet and Former New Zealand Hockey International Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)

Politics and business

A large proportion of the country's leading companies in and beyond the 20th century originated in Dunedin. A selection of relevant company or brand names includes Arthur Barnett (Department store), Donaghy, Fletcher Construction, Fulton Hogan, Bendix Hallenstein, Methven, Mosgiel, NZI, Ravensdown, the Union Company of Sir James Mills, Wests (drink), Whitcoulls, and Wrightson.
The Bell Tea Company was founded here in 1898 and still has one of its factories in Hope Street.
Postage stamps for New Zealand and many other major Southern Hemisphere countries, such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Western Samoa and Tonga, are printed in Dunedin by Southern Colour Print Ltd.
Deputy Prime Minister (since 1999) Michael Cullen was Member of Parliament for the Dunedin electorate of Suburbs of Dunedin, New Zealand#Saint Kilda from 1981 until 1999.
Ms. Pamela Tate SC, appointed Solicitor-General for Victoria, Australia in 2003, was born in Dunedin, and received one of her degrees from Otago University. {{cite web ]|title=Pamela Tate Victoria’s First Female Solicitor-General

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Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand's first female lawyer.
Mai Chen is the Country's most prominent constitutional lawyer now based in Wellington after being educated and raised in Dunedin.

Science

Tramway and mining engineer George Smith Duncan was born in Dunedin in 1852, attended the University of Otago and was instrumental in building the Dunedin cable tramway system.
Two of the founders of modern plastic surgery, Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe were born in Dunedin in 1882 and 1900 respectively.
Popular email program Pegasus Mail was written by David Harris (software developer) while he was employed by the University of Otago.
Michael Woodruff a pioneer in the science of organ transplantation lived in Dunedin while teaching at the University of Otago.
Andrew Wilson created the first Bose-Einstein condensate in the southern hemisphere in 1998 at the University of Otago.
John Carew Eccles became a professor and head of the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago from 1944 to 1951; before winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for describing the electric transmission of impulses along nerves. Eccles’ 1944 – 1951 contributions to academic medicine, neuroscience, and the general life sciences which includes a great many people he mentored, were of major importance for the further development of biomedical research in New Zealand.
Political scientist James R. Flynn, discoverer of the Flynn effect in IQ, is based at the University of Otago.

Sport People who still lived or had lived in Dunedin when they began their sporting achievements.

World record-breaking Middle distance track event athlete Jack Lovelock lived in the city, as did Olympic Games champions long jumper Yvette Williams and swimming Danyon Loader.
Greg Henderson, former world champion and Olympian in track and road cycling. has a 250m² velodome.
Former New Zealand Test Cricket International and Former Black Caps Coach Glenn Turner .
Former Australian Test Cricket International Clarrie Grimmett.
Former New Zealand Test Cricket International Captain Bert Sutcliffe MBE (former world record holder of the most first class runs scored by a left handed batsman).
Former New Zealand Netball International and Former Silver Fern Coach Lois Muir.
Olympic Finn (dinghy) Gold Medalist and Three times America Cup winning Captain Russell Coutts (DCNZM, CBE).
Double international All Blacks Rugby union and New Zealand national rugby league team player Marc Ellis (rugby footballer).
Double international All Blacks Rugby union and Black Caps Cricket player Jeff Wilson (sportsman).
Former New Zealand Test Cricket International and Former Black Caps Coach Warren Lees.
Former All Black Rugby Union Captain Tane Randell.
Former All Black Rugby Union Captain Anton Oliver.
Former Scotland Rugby Union International John Leslie.
former All Black Rugby Union First-five Tony Brown (rugby player).
Former All Black Rugby Union Coach Laurie Mains.
Former All Black Rugby Union Assistent Coach Tony Gilbert (New Zealand Rugby Coach) .
Former Pakestian Test Cricket International Billy Idbedulla.
Former Silver Ferns Netball Captain Lesley Rumball - New Zealand's most capped netball player.
Former Silver Ferns Netball Captain Anna Rowberry .
Current Silver Ferns Netball Captain Adine Wilson .
Double international Former Silver Ferns Netball Captain and Tall Fern Basketball International Belinda Colling
Double international Former Silver Ferns Netball and Tall Fern Basketball International Donna Wilkins
Former New Zealand International and Golf Professional Greg Turner.
Former New Zealand Hockey International and Award Winning Poet Brian Turner (New Zealand poet)

Military

Sir Keith Park, World War I air ace, later Air Marshal in the defence of London during World War II.
Duncan Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross in 1864 in Japan, was buried in Dunedin in 1869.

Events Annual events

January - Whare Flat Folk Festival ends
January - Southern Festival of Speed classic car road-race
February - New Zealand Masters Games (Biennial event)
February - University of Otago & Otago Polytechnic Orientation Weeks
February - Dunedin Summer Festival
March - Vodafone Id DunedinFashion Show
May - Capping Week (University of Otago)
May - Dunedin Film Festival
May - Otago Rally
May - Regent Theatre, Dunedin (reputedly the southern hemisphere's largest regularly-held second-hand book sale)
July - New Zealand International Science Festival (every second year)
July - Gay Pride Month
July - Taste Otago Dunedin Food and Wine Festival
July - Cadbury Chocolate Carnival
July - International Film Festival
September - Samstock Music Festival
October - Otago Festival of the Arts (and Fringe Festival) - every second year (even numbered years)
October - Rhododendron Week
December - Santa Parade
December - Whare Flat Folk Festival begins
December - New Years Eve Party Octagon

Past events

1865 - New Zealand Exhibition (1865)
1889 - New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition (1889)
1898 - Otago Jubilee Industrial Exhibition (1898)
1925 - New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition (1925)
1948 - Centennial celebrations
1998 - 150th anniversary celebrations

Prominent Dunedin buildings and landmarks

Dunedin Railway Station
Larnach Castle
Cargill's Castle
Moana Pool
Cadbury World, Dunedin
Olveston (house)
Speight's
Carisbrook
Otago Boys' High School
University of Otago Registry Building
Regent Theatre, Dunedin
Fortune Theatre (New Zealand)
Dunedin Municipal Chambers
Allied Press
Dunedin Public Hospital
Meridian Mall, Dunedin

Museums, art galleries, and libraries

Otago Museum
Otago Settlers Museum
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Dunedin Public Library
Hocken Library

Churches

St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin
Robert Lawson (architect)#First Church.2C Dunedin 1862
Knox Church, Dunedin
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin
Kaikorai Presbyterian Church
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dunedin
Hanover Street Baptist Church, Dunedin

Places of education Tertiary

Secondary

Sport

Highlanders (Super rugby franchise) - Super 14 rugby team
Otago Rugby Football Union - Air New Zealand Cup rugby
Otago Volts - cricket team
Otago Rebels - The National Bank Cup netball team
Otago United - football (soccer) team in the New Zealand Football Championship
Otago Nuggets - National Basketball League (New Zealand) basketball team

Twinning Dunedin is Town twinning with several cities throughout the world. These include:

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Edinburgh, Scotland
Otaru, Japan
Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Portsmouth, Virginia, Virginia, United States

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More information

The city was possibly the origin of the first Anzac biscuits .
Dunedin was the city in which Speights beer was first brewed.
Dunedin is the most remote city in the world from London (19100 km, 90 km more than Invercargill, and 100 km more than Christchurch) and from Berlin (18200 km). Its antipodes are some 300 kilometres north of the Spain city of La Coruña, in the Bay of Biscay.
Dunedin is one of several settings featured in the H. P. Lovecraft horror classic The Call of Cthulhu.
Curiously enough, the word "Dunedin" resembles "Dúnedain" from J. R. R. Tolkien classic The Lord of the Rings, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was partly filmed in Otago.
Current Mayor is Hon. Peter Chin.

External links

City of Dunedin official website
LiveDunedin - Art, Culture and Lifestyle events in Dunedin (weekly listing)
Profiles of relevant websites categorised geographically
Tourism Dunedin
Dunedin Directory and Information website
Dunedin International Airport
Dunedin College of Education
Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Dunedin City Web Cams
Photos of Dunedin
Dunedin Street Map
City of Dunedin Choir
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