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Blanket Bay was the site of one of Otago's most notable shipwrecks. On 4 July 1863, the two harbour steamers Pride of the Yarra and Favourite collided at the mouth of Blanket Bay, resulting in the loss of 12 lives, including the Rev. Thomas Hewett Campbell, newly appointed rector of Otago Boys' High School, and his family.
Dunedin was founded by Scottish pioneers in 1848; as a result, many of the city's streets are named for equivalent streets in Edinburgh.. Central Dunedin is centred around The Octagon, a central reserve ringed by a street of the same name on which lie several of the city's main buildings, among them the Dunedin Municipal Chambers, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral, and ...
Map of central Dunedin, New Zealand. The black line is the railway, the blue lines are the north/south one-way section of State Highway 1, the red lines are: George Street; The Octagon; Moray Place; Princes Street; Upper Stuart Street; Lower Stuart Street; Date: 31 October 2007: Source: self-made, based on w:Image:Dunedinmap.png map by w:user ...
Central Dunedin. Moray Place is the large octagonal street marked in red (numbered 3) First Church, located on Moray Place's southeastern quadrant Moray Place is an octagonal street which surrounds the city centre of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
The Octagon, looking towards St. Paul's Cathedral (left) and the Municipal Chambers (Dunedin Town Hall) (right). The Robert Burns statue is visible in front of the cathedral. The Octagon is the city centre of Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is an eight-sided plaza with a circular one-way carriageway, bisected by the city's main ...
The Dunedin Town Hall, also known as the Dunedin Centre, is a municipal building in the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. It is located in the heart of the city extending from The Octagon, the central plaza, to Moray Place through a whole city block. It is the seat of the Dunedin City Council, providing its formal meeting chamber, as well as a ...
As with many of Dunedin's streets, it is named after a main street in Edinburgh, Scotland. Stuart Street runs orthogonally to the city's main business district of George and Princes Streets, meeting them at The Octagon, the city's centre, where it is briefly interrupted by the Octagon itself. This divides Stuart Street into two separate streets ...
Mural by Dunedin artist Jon Thom, Vogel Street. The Warehouse Precinct is an urban area of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. Sited on reclaimed land at the northernmost tip of the Southern Endowment, it lies between 1 and 2 kilometres south of The Octagon, the city's centre.