‘Dunedin’ Stories
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Dunedin, New Zealand’s oldest city, a university city of Scottish heritage, possesses a unique combination of cultural riches, fine architecture, and world-famous wildlife reserves on the Otago Peninsula. Situated on the south-eastern coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Dunedin is the main centre of Otago, a region recognized for its spectacular scenery. The sheer physical [...]
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Dunedin is New Zealand’s oldest city, a university city of Scottish heritage, which possesses a unique combination of cultural riches, fine architecture, and world-famous wildlife reserves on the Otago Peninsula. Situated on the south-eastern coast of New Zealand’s South Island, Dunedin has a population of around 125,000 and is the main centre of Otago, a [...]
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When Maui fished along the South Island of New Zealand it was from his canoe which, as the legend says, the South Island was established. The South Island continued to be the provider of food for the Maori people, with its many estuaries, sandy beaches, and rocky shores home to fish, birds and shellfish. Southern Maori [...]
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Dunedin is the second largest city on New Zealand’s South Island and the capital of Otago, a region that once swarmed with gold prospectors and was the country’s largest city in the mid-Victorian era. It is now an area renowned for its eco-tourism and heritage. It is a city of culture and learning where you [...]
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The Otago coast stretches from the Waitaki north of Oamaru to the mighty Clutha River south of Dunedin. Unlike its Central namesake, coastal Otago is moist, green and often misty with its population seeded evenly along its shores. Dunedin is the city of the south and known as the Edinburgh of New Zealand, it wears [...]
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Dunedin has a long history of explorers from the original Maori aboriginals to the arrival of the British settlers when two vessels, The John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing, sailed from London and Glasgow in 1847 with the first immigrants for a settlement at the head of Otago harbour—Dunedin. On board were carpenters and bricklayers ready [...]
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Dunedin is located on the South East coast of New Zealand’s South Island. It is a city nestled in tree-clad hills at the head of a spectacular harbour. It is also the main centre of, and the gateway to, the Otago region. Dunedin is New Zealand’s largest city by area and arguably the most spectacular [...]
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