The entrance to Otago Harbour from Taiaroa Head

Looking across Port Chalmers and the Otago Harbour to the Otago Peninsula

NASA satellite photo of Otago Harbour

Location of Otago Harbour

Otago Harbour consists of a long, much-indented stretch of generally navigable water separating Otago Peninsula from the main urban areas of Dunedin, New Zealand. They join at its southwest end. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1296x972, 252 KB)Entrance to Otago Harbour Author: Velela. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1296x972, 252 KB)Entrance to Otago Harbour Author: Velela. ... Otago (help· info) is one of the regions of New Zealand and lies in the south-east of the South Island. ... A harbor (or harbour) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... View across Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour to Otago Peninsula, new zealand (photo by James Dignan, March 2005) File links The following pages link to this file: Otago Peninsula Otago Harbour Port Chalmers Saint Martin Island/Quarantine Island Categories: GFDL images | Volcanoes of New Zealand ... View across Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour to Otago Peninsula, new zealand (photo by James Dignan, March 2005) File links The following pages link to this file: Otago Peninsula Otago Harbour Port Chalmers Saint Martin Island/Quarantine Island Categories: GFDL images | Volcanoes of New Zealand ... Download high resolution version (1280x948, 111 KB)NASA World Wind landsat image of Otago Harbour. ... Download high resolution version (1280x948, 111 KB)NASA World Wind landsat image of Otago Harbour. ... Image File history File links NZ-Otago_H.png‎ Location map of Otago Harbour, New Zealand File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links NZ-Otago_H.png‎ Location map of Otago Harbour, New Zealand File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Otago Peninsula is a long, rugged indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand. ... Alternative meanings at Dunedin (disambiguation) Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, located in coastal Otago. ...

The harbour was formed from the drowned remnants of a giant shield volcano, centred close to what is now the town of Port Chalmers. The remains of this violent origin can be seen in the basalt of the surrounding hills. The last eruptive phase ended some ten million years ago. Shield volcano Mauna Kea, a shield volcano, on the Island of Hawai‘i with a light dusting of snow. ... Panorama overlooking the Port. ... Basalt Columnar basalt at Sheepeater Cliff in Yellowstone Basalt (IPA: ) is a common gray to black volcanic rock. ...

Substantial container port facilities exist at Port Chalmers, halfway along the western shore of the harbour. A channel along the western side of the harbour is regularly dredged, allowing fairly large ships to sail all the way to the heart of Dunedin, where New Zealand's frozen meat export trade began in the nineteenth century. The dredging of this channel, the Victoria Channel, was a major technological undertaking for the fledgling settlement of Dunedin in the mid 19th century. The eastern side of the harbour is shallow, with large sandbanks exposed at low tide.

Two islands form a line between Port Chalmers and Portobello in the lower harbour - Goat Island and Saint Martin Island/Quarantine Island. A smaller island known as Pudding Island lies close to the Peninsula shore and can be reached dry foot at low tide. Portobello Portobello is a village beside the Otago Harbour halfway along the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin City. ... There are a number of places named Goat Island: Goat Island is an island in Sydney Harbour. ... Saint Martin Island (also known as Quarantine Island) is located in Otago Harbour, close to the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. ...

Near the mouth of the harbour lies the partly-forested sandspit of Aramoana (Maori for "pathway to the sea"), infamous for a massacre of 13 people by a gunman, David Gray, in November 1990. Aramoana mudflats at the mouth of Otago Harbour Aramoana is a small coastal settlement, 27 kilometres north of Dunedin city, in the South Island of New Zealand. ... Māori (or Maori) is a language spoken by the native peoples of New Zealand and the Cook Islands. ... The Aramoana massacre was an incident that occurred on 13 November and 14 November 1990 in Aramoana, New Zealand. ...

Adjacent to Aramoana stands the site that was proposed for New Zealand's second aluminium smelter. The proposal, in the late 1970s, was abandoned after major public protests. This area is an important habitat for many species of wading birds. Other wildlife to frequent the waters of the harbour include penguins, sea lions, and seals, and Taiaroa Head, at the tip of the Otago Peninsula, is home to a colony of Royal Albatrosses, the only such colony close to a major human urban area in the world. General Name, Symbol, Number aluminium, Al, 13 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 13, 3, p Appearance silvery Atomic mass 26. ... Modern Genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For extinct genera, see Systematics Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are an order of aquatic, flightless birds living exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Genera Eumetopias Zalophus Otaria Neophoca Phocarctos Hundreds of California Sea Lions sunbathing on Pier 39 in San Francisco. ... Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae A Pacific walrus A leopard seal on Kerguelen Pinnipeds (fin-feet, lit. ... Taiaroa Head is a headland at the end of Otago Harbour in New Zealand, overlooking the mouth of the Otago Harbour. ... Binomial name Diomedea epomophora Lesson, 1785 Synonyms Diomedea epomophora epomophora The Southern Royal Albatross, Diomedea epomophora, is a large seabird from the albatross family. ...

The harbour is tidal, but as it is shallow it is seldom rough, and as such is popular for such water sports as yachting and windsurfing. Yachting is a noncommercial boating activity. ... Windsurfing is a surface water sport using a windsurf board, also commonly called a sailboard, usually two to five meters long and powered by a single sail. ...

European history 1770-1848

The existence of the harbour was guessed by Captain Cook when he was off what is now the Dunedin Pacific coast in 1770. It is not known when the first Europeans entered it but it was some time 'long before' 1810, according to the Creed manuscript discovered in 2003. George Bass made the Dunedin end of the harbour the north east limit of his proposed fishing monopoly in 1803. The American ship Favorite with its supercargo Daniel Whitney may have called in the summer of 1805 to 1806. Daniel Cooper, master of the London sealer Unity probably did call in the summer of 1808 to 1809 when his Chief Officer, Charles Hooper, probably gave his name to Hooper's Inlet on the Otago Peninsula. William Tucker (1784-1817) was with a gang dropped on islands off the Dunedin coast in November 1809 and with another man, Daniel Wilson, was at Otago Harbour on May 3rd 1810 when Robert Mason, master of the Sydney sealer Brothers anchored in the harbour and picked him up. This is the first, explicit and identifiable reference to a European ship in the Otago Harbour.The court record containing it made in 1810 refers to the harbour as 'Port Daniel' a name which stayed in use for some years. British explorer James Cook is most noted for having discovered Australia and Hawaii. ... George Bass George Bass, British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia (1771 – unknown, post 1803), was born at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford Lincolnshire and was educated at Boston Grammar School. ... The Otago Peninsula is a long, rugged indented finger of land that forms the easternmost part of Dunedin, New Zealand. ... William Tucker was a guitarist whose credits included work with Ministry, Chemlab, and Chris Connelly. ...

Another English sealer, the Sydney Cove, Captain Charles McLaren, was anchored in the harbour late in 1810 when Te Wahia's theft of a knife, a red shirt and some other articles sparked what has been called 'the sealers' war' - also - the 'war of the shirt'.

A notable affray in that conflict occurred after James Kelly of Hobart anchored the Sophia in the harbour in December 1817 with William Tucker on board. After a visit to nearby Whareakeake (Murdering Beach) where Tucker and two other men were killed Kelly took revenge on Maori on his ship in the harbour, including a chief Korako. He then burnt a harbourside village,'the beautiful city of Otago', probably on Te Rauone Beach and certainly not at Whareakeake as has often been suggested.

A peace was concluded in 1823 and on the 17th July that year John Rodolphus Kent, of the Naval cutter Mermaid, from New South Wales, while in the Harbour, took 'the liberty of naming it (as it has not hitherto been named) Port Oxley, in honour of the Surveyor General of the Colony'. As noted, it had already been named. In 1826 Thomas Shepherd, one of a party of intending colonists, explored the site of Dunedin and left the oldest surving pictures of the harbour and nearby coast, now in the Mitchell Library Sydney. Emblems: Floral - Waratah (Telopea speciosissima); Bird - Kookaburra (Dacelo gigas); Animal - Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus); Fish - Blue Groper (Achoerodus viridis) Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Const. ... Oxley is a suburb of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. ...

From its origins as a secret sealers' haven Otago Harbour developed into a busy international whaling port after the Weller brothers established their whaling station at Te Umu Kuri, Wellers Rock, at what is now called 'Otakou' in November 1831. The busiest whaling port south of the Bay of Islands it was also the hub of the largest European population in New Zealand after the Bay of Islands/Hokianga district, by the end of 1839. By that time whaling had collapsed and Dumont D'Urville and his officers, visiting in 1840, observed the port had become the centre of a riotous trade in liquor and prostitution. It continued as such until the Scottish settlers arrived in 1848 and made Port Chalmers and Dunedin the new foci of the harbour. The Weller brothers, Englishmen of Sydney and Otago, New Zealand, were the founders of a whaling station on Otago Harbour and New Zealand’s most substantial merchant traders in the 1830s. ... Rear Admiral Jules Sébastien César Dumont dUrville ( May 23, 1790 – May 8, 1842) was a French explorer and naval officer, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. ... A sex worker in Germany. ...

Harbourside settlements

Settlements by the harbour include (in order from the mouth of the harbour):

• On the western shore:
  • Aramoana
  • Careys Bay
  • Port Chalmers
  • Sawyers Bay (with a tannery)
  • Roseneath
  • Saint Leonards
  • Ravensbourne (with a fertiliser works)
• On the eastern shore:
  • Weller's Rock (With access to the Albatross Coloney, Seal Coloney, and Fort Taiaroa)
  • Otakou
  • Harwood
  • Portobello (with its marine research station)
  • Broad Bay
  • Macandrew Bay
  • Anderson's Bay

The Otago Harbour basin and central Dunedin, as seen from Signal Hill.

Aramoana mudflats at the mouth of Otago Harbour Aramoana is a small coastal settlement, 27 kilometres north of Dunedin city, in the South Island of New Zealand. ... Panorama overlooking the Port. ... Dunedin is a city of 122,000 people in the South Island of New Zealand The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. ... Dunedin is a city of 122,000 people in the South Island of New Zealand The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. ... Dunedin is a city of 122,000 people in the South Island of New Zealand The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. ... Dunedin is a city of 122,000 people in the South Island of New Zealand The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. ... The settlement of Otakou lies within the boundaries of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. ... Portobello Portobello is a village beside the Otago Harbour halfway along the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin City. ... Dunedin is a city of 122,000 people in the South Island of New Zealand The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. ... Dunedin is a city of 122,000 people in the South Island of New Zealand The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. ... Dunedin is a city of 122,000 people in the South Island of New Zealand The principal suburbs of Dunedin are as follows. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1134x502, 116 KB)Central Dunedin and the head of the Otago Harbour, New Zealand, as seen from Signal Hill I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1134x502, 116 KB)Central Dunedin and the head of the Otago Harbour, New Zealand, as seen from Signal Hill I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of... Signal Hill, viewed from the south, across Otago Harbour. ...

External links

• Otago Harbour map

Coordinates: 45°49′S 170°39′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...