Corstorphine

Corstorphine is a suburb of southwest in the of . It is located on the slopes of Calton Hill - a spur of Forbury Hill - between Valley and the Pacific Ocean.
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Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
  • 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.

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 . It is one of about ten castles in New Zealand, the other one in Otago being nearby .

Beach
Photo: ChristchurchHistorian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a locality 7.5 kilometres southwest of the city centre of , New Zealand. Located just south of , has sea-carved sandstone cliffs, rock arches and caves.

Church
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calton Hill and Concord.

Suburb
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an elevated southern residential suburb of the City of in New Zealand's South Island. The suburb is named after in , Scotland, and some of its street names carry similar etymological roots.

Suburb
is a small residential suburb of the New Zealand city of . 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.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
St Clair is a coastal residential suburb of , 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

Latitude
-45.90822° or 45° 54′ 30″ south
Longitude
170.47086° or 170° 28′ 15″ east
Population
3,830
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
Open location code
4V6G3FRC+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 208336914
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6212211
Wiki­data ID
Q5173197
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Turkish—“Corstorphine” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Corstorphine, New Zealand”
  • French: “Corstorphine”
  • Turkish: “Corstorphine”

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Notable Places Nearby

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