Sawyers Bay

Sawyers Bay is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located 1.5 kilometres to the southwest of Port Chalmers in a wide valley on the shore of Mussel Bay, 13 kilometres to the northeast of Dunedin city centre.

Photo: Samuel Mann, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port Chalmers Municipal Building and Port Chalmers Maritime Museum.

Port Chalmers Municipal Building

Town hall

Photo: Benchill, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Port Chalmers Municipal Building is a town hall.

Port Chalmers Maritime Museum

Museum

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Port Chalmers Post Office is a Renaissance revival former post office in the town of Port Chalmers. Designed by Colonial Architect William Clayton the Port Chalmers Post Office served the town for over a century before later being converted into a museum.

Iona Church

Church

Photo: Benchill, Public domain.

Iona Church is an historic church in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. The church building is listed as a Category I Historic Place.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Roseneath and Port Chalmers.

Roseneath

Quarter

Photo: Alistair Paterson, CC BY 2.0.

Roseneath is a small suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin, located on the northwestern shore of Otago Harbour, 12 kilometres to the northeast of Dunedin city centre.

Port Chalmers

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Port Chalmers is a deep water fishing and cargo port for Dunedin, one of the main ports for the South Island of New Zealand, in the Otago region. It is visited by several cruise ships each summer. In 2021, it was home to 1,500 people.

Sawyers Bay

Type: Quarter with 1,100 residents
Description: suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand
Categories: suburb and locality
Location: Dunedin City, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude

-45.81545° or 45° 48′ 56″ south

Longitude

170.6039° or 170° 36′ 14″ east

Population

1,100

Elevation

24 metres (79 feet)

Open location code

4V6G5JM3+RH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2202486818

OpenStreetMap feature

place=quarter

GeoNames ID

6212403

Wikidata ID

Q7428750

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Turkish—“Sawyers Bay” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Sawyers Bay”
French: “Sawyers Bay”
Turkish: “Sawyers Bay”

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