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Delve into Wakari
The district Wakari of Dunedin in Dunedin City (Otago) is a subburb in New Zealand about 381 mi south-west of Wellington, the country's capital town.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 7°C / 45 °F
Morning Temperature | 7°C / 44 °F |
Evening Temperature | 8°C / 47 °F |
Night Temperature | 7°C / 45 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 11% |
Air Humidity | 92% |
Air Pressure | 1001 hPa |
Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 14 km/h (9 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Friday, 29th of March 2024
11°C (53 °F)
10°C (51 °F)
Light rain, fresh breeze, broken clouds.
Saturday, 30th of March 2024
16°C (60 °F)
11°C (52 °F)
Sky is clear, gentle breeze, clear sky.
Sunday, 31st of March 2024
14°C (57 °F)
12°C (53 °F)
Overcast clouds, light breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Bluestone On George
Roslyn Apartments
Amross Motel
Bella Vista Motel Dunedin
Alhambra Oaks Motor Lodge
538 Great King Motel
Chapel Apartments
Allan Court Motel
Dunedin Motel and Villas
Dunedin Palms Motel
Videos from this area
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Mountain Bike Dunedin (GoPro) New Zealand
GoPro video action featuring Buthunes Gully, Signal Hill, Otago Pennisula, Karetai Track, Buskin trail and Dunedin Dirt Girls. Filmed by Alex and Jen Bardsley.
Dunedin City Council - Public Forum - July 24 2014
Coverage of the Dunedin City Council Public Forum held on Thursday July 24 2014. Minutes, agendas and reports related to this meeting can be found at http://goo.gl/OUmgky.
Introducing Your City Council
An overview of the what the Dunedin City Council does and how it impacts on our everyday lives as presented to Dunedin high schools by Councillor Jinty MacTavish and Councillor Aaron Hawkins.
Dunedin's Art & Culture
Dunedin is New Zealand's centre for learning, arts and culture. It's cultural heritage runs deep, especially for a city that is young by world standards. Dunedin was the first city in New...
Dunedin City Council - Economic Development Committee - April 7 2014
Coverage of the Dunedin City Council Economic Development Committee held on Monday April 7 2014. Minutes, agendas and reports related to this meeting can be found at http://goo.gl/KpdIZe.
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Dunedin City Council - Council Meeting - February 18 2015
Coverage of the Dunedin City Council Extraordinary Meeting held on Wednesday February 18 2015. Minutes, agendas and reports related to this meeting can be found at http://goo.gl/sdEz6B.
Dunedin City Council - Council Meeting - November 3 2014
Coverage of the Dunedin City Council Meeting held on Monday November 3 2014. Minutes, agendas and reports related to this meeting can be found at http://goo.gl/aJnL3J.
Dunedin City Council - Public Forum - September 22 2014
Coverage of the Dunedin City Council Public Forum held on Monday Sept 22 2014.
Dunedin City Council - Council Meeting - December 15 2014
Coverage of the Dunedin City Council Meeting held on Tuesday December 15 2014. Minutes, agendas and reports related to this meeting can be found at http://goo.gl/3bDMak.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Dunedin
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. While Tauranga, Napier-Hastings and Hamilton have eclipsed the city in population in recent years to make it only the seventh largest city in New Zealand, Dunedin is still considered to be one of the four main cities of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons.
Otago Boys' High School
Otago Boys' High School (OBHS) is one of New Zealand's oldest boys' secondary schools, located in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. It was founded on 3 August 1863 and moved to its present site in 1885. The main building was designed by Robert Lawson and is regarded as one of the finest Gothic revival structures in the country. Situated on high ground above central Dunedin it commands excellent views of the city and is a prominent landmark.
St. Hilda's Collegiate School
Saint Hilda's Collegiate School is a girls' secondary school in Dunedin, New Zealand. Founded as an Anglican school in 1896 by the first bishop of Dunedin, Bishop Samuel Nevill and staffed by the Sisters of the Church. The sisters withdrew from the school in the 1930s. St. Hilda's is the only school of the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin. It is integrated into the New Zealand state school system.
Kaikorai Presbyterian Church
Kaikorai Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian congregation of the PCANZ Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand located in Kaikorai, a suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand. Kaikorai Presbyterian Church has stood at the crossroads of Taieri Road and Nairn Street since 1868.
Kavanagh College
Kavanagh College is a Catholic Secondary school in Dunedin, New Zealand. The school in its present form dates from 1989 but its origins as a secondary school go back to 1871.
Olveston (house)
Olveston is a substantial house in an inner suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand.
Columba College
Columba College is an integrated presbyterian school in Roslyn, Dunedin, New Zealand. The roll is made up of pupils of all ages. The majority of pupils are in the girls secondary, day and boarding school, but there is also a primary school consisting of boys and girls in years 1-6.
Stuart Street, Dunedin
Stuart Street is one of the main streets of Dunedin, New Zealand. 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, Upper Stuart Street and Lower Stuart Street.
Wakari Hospital
Wakari Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is situated in the suburb of Wakari, about three kilometres north-west of the city centre. The hospital is operated by the Southern District Health Board and is closely associated with Dunedin Public Hospital. It contains specialised psychiatric services but also cares for people with intellectual disability and people undergoing physical rehabilitation.
Beverly-Begg Observatory
The Beverly-Begg Observatory a New Zealand astronomical observatory, situated on Robin Hood Park in the Belleknowes part of Dunedin's town belt. It was established in 1922 by the Dunedin Astronomical Society and is the home of the group. The annex was added in the 1960s.
Meridian Mall, Dunedin
The Meridian Mall is a large shopping complex in Dunedin, New Zealand designed by ASA Crone Architects, an Australian development company. At 16,000 m it is the largest retail mall in the southern South Island, and one of the largest in the South Island as a whole. The mall was constructed in 1995-1997 behind the former Arthur Barnett building in George Street which was designed by Edmund Anscombe (1874-1948) and completed in 1924.
Globe Theatre, Dunedin
The Globe Theatre is the name of a theatre located in Dunedin, New Zealand, and the amateur theatre company that runs it. The theatre was built in 1961 by Patric and Rosalie Carey as an extension of their house, at a time when professional theatre was virtually non-existent in New Zealand. The theatre is notable for premiering all of James K. Baxter’s plays. The building to which it is attached, at 104 London Street, was designed by William Mason (architect) as his own house and built in 1864.
St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin
St Paul's Cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, in New Zealand and the seat of the Bishop of Dunedin.
King Edward Technical College
King Edward Technical College is the former name for a school and technical college in Dunedin, New Zealand, which was established as the Dunedin Technical School in 1889 when the Caledonian Society instigated night education classes. Originally run from Great King Street, it offered classes in carpentry, chemistry, cookery, domestic economy, typewriting, and woodcarving, with courses expanding by 1895 to include dressmaking, navigation, and plumbing.
Moana Pool
Moana Pool is the largest swimming pool in the southern half of New Zealand's South Island. It is located at the corner of Littlebourne Road and Upper Stuart Street close to Otago Boys' High School, on the slopes of Roslyn, overlooking the centre of the city of Dunedin. The pool complex can be seen from much of the city, and commands extensive views over central and coastal Dunedin.
John McGlashan College
John McGlashan College is an integrated secondary, day and boarding school for boys, located in the suburb of Maori Hill in Dunedin, New Zealand. The school currently caters for approximately 520 students from years 7 to 13, including 150 boarders.
Flagstaff, Otago
Flagstaff, known in Māori as Te Whanaupaki, is a prominent hill overlooking the northwest of the city of Dunedin, in New Zealand's South Island. Together with Mount Cargill, which lies to its northeast, it dominates the skyline of the city. Flagstaff lies seven kilometres to the north of Dunedin's city centre. The hill was known by the Māori as Whakari, and an anglicised form of this name is still used for the Dunedin suburb of Wakari, which lies to the south of Flagstaff.
Arthur Street Cemetery
Arthur Street cemetery was the first cemetery built in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is situated on the City Rise, on the corner of Arthur Street and Rattray Street, on the slopes overlooking the city's centre, which lies 500 metres to the east. The first burial at the site was of surveyor's labourer James Campbell, buried on October 29, 1846, over a year before the settlement of Dunedin was founded in 1848.
Wakari
Wakari is a residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located 2.5 kilometres to the northwest of the city centre, immediately to the west of the ridge which runs to the west of the city's centre. Wakari lies to the north of the upper reaches of the Kaikorai Valley, and is also north of the suburb of Kaikorai. The suburbs of Roslyn and Maori Hill are situated on the ridge immediately to the southeast and east of Wakari.
Maori Hill
Maori Hill is a residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located at the northern end of the ridge which runs in a crescent around the central city's western edge, 2 kilometres to the northwest of the city centre, immediately above and within the Town Belt. It is connected to Dunedin North, which lies to the east, via Drivers Road, the suburbs of Roslyn and Kaikorai to the southwest via Highgate, and the suburb of Wakari to the northwest via Balmacewen Road.
Ross Creek Reservoir
The Ross Creek Reservoir is an artificial lake in Dunedin, New Zealand. One of the oldest artificial lakes in the country, and the oldest water supply reservoir still in use in the country, it was created in the 1860s to provide water for the city of Dunedin, at that time in the middle of rapid expansion due to the Otago goldrush.
Halfway Bush
Halfway Bush is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located 3 kilometres to the northwest of the city centre, close to the point at which Taieri Road becomes the winding rural Three Mile Hill Road. It was this road which gave the suburb its name, as this locality was halfway between the Taieri Plains and central Dunedin in the early days of European settlement, when Three Mile Hill was the main route from Dunedin to the Otago hinterland.
Roslyn, Otago
Roslyn is a major residential and retail suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located 150 metres above the city centre on the ridge which runs in a crescent around the central city's western edge. It is 2.5 kilometres to the northwest of the city centre, immediately above the Town Belt. Roslyn's 2001 population was 3,957. Roslyn is connected to the city's CBD via Stuart Street and City Road.
Brockville, New Zealand
Brockville is a residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located at the edge of the city's main urban area, 5.5 kilometres to the northwest of the city centre, but separated from it by both a ridge of hills and the Kaikorai Valley. The suburb's main street is Brockville Road, which leaves Kaikorai Valley Road close to the boundary between the suburbs of Kaikorai and Bradford, winding up the slopes which forms the northwestern boundary of Kaikorai Valley.
Roslyn Overbridge
The Roslyn Overbridge (also known as Roslyn Bridge or Highgate Bridge) is a landmark in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. Located 2.5 kilometres northwest of the city's centre, it allows for the passage of the arterial Upper Stuart Street under Highgate, the main suburban road which runs along the ridge of hills which surrounds the city centre. The bridge, constructed in 1954 consists of a single arch, and lies at the heart of one of the city's more complex interchanges.