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About Otago
Otago is two regions wearing one name. Dunedin is a Victorian university city on the coast with twenty thousand students in it; Queenstown and Wānaka are an alpine resort economy inland that runs on international tourism and looks nothing like the rest of New Zealand.
Who a listing on Otago reaches
Otago has two audiences on one lot. Queenstown and Wānaka sell adventure, accommodation and property to visitors from everywhere; Dunedin sells to students, the university and the hospital. Vineyards in Central Otago and the trades that build holiday homes sit between them.
- Main centres
- Dunedin, Queenstown, Wānaka, Oamaru, Alexandra
- Council
- Otago Regional Council, Dunedin
- People
- 240,900 (2023 Census)
On the chart
AspiringNational park
Mount Aspiring National Park: glaciers, the Matukituki valley and the Routeburn Track.
Straddles the Main Divide. The Routeburn and the Rees–Dart begin here.
Tititea / Mount Aspiring, 3,033 m. The “Matterhorn of the South”.
“The glistening peak”. First climbed in 1909 by Bernard Head, Jack Clarke and Alec Graham.
WakatipuLake
Lake Wakatipu, 80 km long. Its water rises and falls about 12 cm every 27 minutes, a standing wave called a seiche.
Queenstown sits on its northern arm. The steamer Earnslaw has crossed it since 1912.
WānakaLake
Lake Wānaka, 192 km², the fourth largest. That Wānaka Tree stands in it.
Mount Aspiring’s park begins at its head. The lake is about 300 m deep.
HāweaLake
Lake Hāwea, raised 20 m in 1958 to store water for the Roxburgh power station.
Separated from Wānaka by The Neck, a strip of land a kilometre wide at its narrowest.
DunstanLake
Lake Dunstan: filled in 1992 behind the Clyde Dam on the Clutha.
Its filling drowned old Cromwell’s town centre, now a heritage precinct on the shore.
Otago PeninsulaLandmark
Otago Peninsula: the only mainland royal albatross colony, at Taiaroa Head.
Larnach Castle sits on its ridge. The albatross colony was the first at any mainland site.
The CatlinsLandmark
The Catlins: rainforest to the sea, a petrified forest at Curio Bay, and yellow-eyed penguins.
Slope Point, the mainland’s southernmost point, is here; the trees grow sideways in the wind.
Nugget PointLandmark
Nugget Point / Tokatā: rock stacks like gold nuggets under a lighthouse lit in 1870.
Fur seals, sea lions and elephant seals all haul out below the point.
DunedinCity
Dunedin / Ōtepoti: Scots-built on a harbour; Baldwin Street is the world's steepest.
The railway station is the most photographed building in the country; albatross nest at Taiaroa Head.
QueenstownCity
Queenstown / Tāhuna: on Lake Wakatipu under the Remarkables, where commercial bungy jumping began in 1988.
The TSS Earnslaw has crossed the lake since 1912; the gondola climbs Bob’s Peak.