Tunnel Beach
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: ChristchurchHistorian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cargill’s Castle and Caversham Presbyterian Church.
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.
Caversham Presbyterian Church
Church
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Caversham Presbyterian Church is situated 3 km northeast of Tunnel Beach.
St Peter’s Anglican Church Complex
Church
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Peter’s Anglican Church Complex is situated 3½ km northeast of Tunnel Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corstorphine and Concord.
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.
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.
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. Calton Hill is situated 2½ km north of Tunnel Beach.
Tunnel Beach
- Type: Beach
- Description: beach in New Zealand
- Category: landform
- Location: Dunedin City, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.92079° or 45° 55′ 15″ southLongitude
170.45962° or 170° 27′ 35″ eastElevation
137 metres (449 feet)Open location code
4V6G3FH5+MROpenStreetMap ID
way 107479912OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Egyptian Arabic—“Tunnel Beach” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tunnel Beach”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تانيل بيتش”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Blackhead and St Clair Park.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Forbury Hill and Dunedin Cemetery.
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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 “Tunnel Beach”. Photo: ChristchurchHistorian, CC BY-SA 4.0.