Corstorphine
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 3,830 residents
- Description: suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Corstorphine, New Zealand”
- Postal code: 9012
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 Calton Hill and Concord.
Calton Hill
Suburb
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Calton Hill is an elevated southern residential suburb of the City of Dunedin in New Zealand's South Island. The suburb is named after Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, and some of its street names carry similar etymological roots.
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.
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.
Corstorphine
- Category: locality
- Location: Dunedin City, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.90822° or 45° 54′ 30″ southLongitude
170.47086° or 170° 28′ 15″ eastPopulation
3,830Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)Open location code
4V6G3FRC+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 208336914OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
6212211Wikidata ID
Q5173197
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Corstorphine” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Corstorphine, New Zealand”
- French: “Corstorphine (Nouvelle-Zélande)”
- French: “Corstorphine”
- Turkish: “Corstorphine”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Corstorphine Community Center and Corstorphine Park.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Corstorphine”. Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.