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Port Chalmers

Port Chalmers

The shallow waters at the head of Otago Harbour meant Port Chalmers – nearer the harbour entrance – became Dunedin’s deep-water port. The two settlements were connected by a road and then a railway. This is Port Chalmers around the 1860s. The line of two-storey buildings is on Grey St.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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David Thorns and Ben Schrader, City history and people – Types of towns, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23496/port-chalmers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Thorns and Ben Schrader, published 15 April 2010.

Comments

Warren Wenlock
17 May 2018
Looking for history of Mrs. Fanny Worsdell , nee . Fanny Simkins .
GEORGE H CROOM JR
28 September 2014
Looking For Friends Of Mine When I WAS IN DUENDIN AND PORT CHALMERS ON THE USS PETERSON DE152 IN 1960, DARN HILL AND THE HILL FAMILY.I LIVE iN hEATH OHIO.