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Dunedin (/ d ʌ ˈ n iː d ɪ n / ⓘ [10] [a] duh-NEE-din; Māori: Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from Dùn Èideann ("fort of Edin"), the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. [12]
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 ...
South Island Rail Network map. The South Island's railway network has two main lines, two secondary lines, and a few branch lines. The Main North Line from Picton to Christchurch and the Main South Line from Lyttelton to Invercargill via Dunedin together constitute the South Island Main Trunk Railway.
Many of Dunedin's more attractive inner city properties are at the north end of the street, quite a number of which have been divided up as student flats. Close to the street's northern end is the entrance to Woodhaugh Gardens , a major park, which lies to the west of George Street along the south-western bank of the Leith .
South Otago lies in the south east of the South Island of New Zealand.As the name suggests, it forms the southernmost part of the geographical region of Otago.. The exact definition of the area designated as South Otago is imprecise, as the area is defined not in geopolitical or administrative terms, but rather by the area's topographical features and the similarity of its communities.
Dunedin is a city of 136,000 people (June 2024) in the South Island of New Zealand. [1] The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. Inner and outer suburbs are ordered by location, clockwise from the city centre, starting due north:
The original Māori name for Port Chalmers was Potakere or Pou-takere, which may have indicated the hill where the tuahu, or altar, was sited. [6] Koputai is a later name meaning ‘full tide’ and refers to an incident in which a group of warriors decided to spend the night in a cave that once existed at what was later known as Boiler Point and pulled their canoes well above the high tide mark.