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Lyall Bay, 1909

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Lyall Bay, 1909

One of the largest former dune lands in Wellington is now a built-up area. These dunes are at Lyall Bay in 1909, looking south. The dune land stretched from the exposed south coast across the narrow low-lying isthmus of land to Evans Bay on Wellington Harbour.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)

Reference: G-48242-1/2

by Sydney Charles Smith

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Carl Walrond, Dune lands – Dune lands today, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14051/lyall-bay-1909 (accessed 15 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.