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Dunedin Railway Station
1906 station designed by George Troup in Flemish Renaissance style, of dark basalt with Oamaru stone details. The concourse has a floor with about 750,000 tiles.
Otago · New Zealand Capital
Dunedin
In the destination Dunedin and the Otago Peninsula.
In the photo: Dunedin railway station
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The city
What to expect from Dunedin.
Dunedin is the seat of Otago and the second-largest city on the South Island, founded in 1848 by Scottish settlers at the head of Otago Harbour. The stone centre revolves around the Octagon, with the 1906 railway station, the Toitū museum and the Otago Museum a few blocks away. It has Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world, and provides access to the Otago Peninsula, with Larnach Castle and the Taiaroa albatrosses.
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The local experience
What to see in Dunedin
Museum
Toitū Otago Settlers Museum
Dunedin and Otago history museum, founded in 1898 and refurbished, named Toitū, next to the railway station. Portrait gallery of settlers, the 1872 locomotive Josephine, and a Chinese garden.
Square
The Octagon
Eight-sided square in central Dunedin, with R. A. Lawson's town hall, the public art gallery, the Regent theatre and the Anglican St Paul’s Cathedral, plus the statue of the poet Robert Burns.
Museum
Otago Museum
Museum opened in 1868, near the University of Otago, with collections of natural history, Māori and Pacific cultures, and a science centre with a tropical butterfly conservatory.
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Street
Baldwin Street
A residential street of about 350 metres in the North East Valley neighbourhood, recognised by Guinness as the steepest street in the world, with a section of about 35% gradient.
Garden
Dunedin Botanic Garden
Botanical garden established in 1863 at the foot of Signal Hill, one of the country’s oldest, with rhododendron gardens, a winter conservatory, native plant collections and an aviary of exotic and native birds.
Historic house
Larnach Castle
Neogothic mansion built from 1871 for William Larnach on the crest of the Otago Peninsula, about 13 km from Dunedin city centre, with a restored interior and gardens of international importance.
Nature reserve
Taiaroa Head (Royal Albatross Centre)
Tip of the Otago Peninsula with the only mainland-nesting northern royal albatross colony, a visitor centre, guided tours, an 1886 cannon and blue penguins at Pilots Beach.
Beach
Tunnel Beach
Beach south of Dunedin, beneath sandstone cliffs carved by the sea, featuring a stone arch and a tunnel dug in the 19th century that leads down to the sand. Short, steep track from the car park.