Forbury Hill
Forbury Hill is a peak in Dunedin City, Otago and has an elevation of 154 metres. Forbury Hill is situated nearby to the suburb Corstorphine, as well as near the quarter St Clair Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cargill’s Castle and Tunnel Beach.
Cargill’s Castle
Ruins
Photo: Grutness, Public domain.
The ruins of Cargill's Castle stand on a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean in New Zealand's southern city of Dunedin. It is one of about ten castles in New Zealand, the other one in Otago being nearby Larnach Castle.
Tunnel Beach
Beach
Photo: ChristchurchHistorian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tunnel Beach is a locality 7.5 kilometres southwest of the city centre of Dunedin, New Zealand. Located just south of St Clair, Tunnel Beach has sea-carved sandstone cliffs, rock arches and caves.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corstorphine and St Clair, New Zealand.
Corstorphine
Suburb
Corstorphine is a suburb of southwest Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand. It is located on the slopes of Calton Hill - a spur of Forbury Hill - between Caversham Valley and the Pacific Ocean.
St Clair, New Zealand
Suburb
St Clair is a coastal residential suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand. It is located on the Pacific Ocean coast five kilometres from the city centre on the southwesternmost part of the coastal plain which makes up the southern part of the urban area, and also climbs the slopes of Forbury Hill immediately to the west of this plain.
Concord
Suburb
Concord is a small residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is southwest of the city centre. It lay on State Highway 1 until the construction of the Dunedin Southern Motorway in the 1990s, but is now bypassed by traffic from central Dunedin.
Forbury Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 154 metres
- Description: hill in New Zealand
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Dunedin City, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.91603° or 45° 54′ 58″ southLongitude
170.47025° or 170° 28′ 13″ eastElevation
154 metres (505 feet)Open location code
4V6G3FMC+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 10653864311OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Forbury Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Forbury Hill”
- Dutch: “Forbury Hill”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as St Clair Park and Kew.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Clair Golf Course and Corstorphine Park.
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