Port Chalmers
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Port Chalmers Municipal Building and Holy Trinity Church.
Port Chalmers Municipal Building
Town hall
Photo: Benchill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port Chalmers Municipal Building is a town hall.
Holy Trinity Church
Church
Photo: Benchill, Public domain.
Holy Trinity Church is an heritage-listed Anglican church located in Port Chalmers, Otago, New Zealand. Completed in 1874, the Academic Gothic Revival church building is constructed in volcanic stone and has some fine stained glass, and is listed as a Category I Historic Place by Heritage New Zealand.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sawyers Bay and Roseneath.
Sawyers Bay
Quarter
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.
Roseneath
Quarter
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.
Portobello
Quarter
Photo: Grutness, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portobello is a village beside the Otago Harbour halfway along the Otago Peninsula in Dunedin City, New Zealand. It lies at the foot of a small peninsula between Portobello Bay and Latham Bay. Portobello is situated 3½ km southeast of Port Chalmers.
Port Chalmers
- Type: Quarter with 1,460 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Dunedin City, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-45.8151° or 45° 48′ 54″ southLongitude
170.6223° or 170° 37′ 20″ eastPopulation
1,460Elevation
135 metres (443 feet)Named after
Dr Thomas ChalmersUnited Nations Location Code
NZ POEOpen location code
4V6G5JMC+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 243637230OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
2208238Wikidata ID
Q2104693
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Port Chalmers” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ميناء تشالمرز”
- Asturian: “Port Chalmers”
- Catalan: “Koputai”
- Catalan: “Port Chalmers (Nova Zelanda)”
- Catalan: “Port Chalmers”
- Chinese: “查尔姆斯港”
- Dutch: “Port Chalmers”
- French: “Port Chalmers”
- German: “Port Chalmers”
- Hungarian: “Port Chalmers”
- Italian: “Port Chalmers”
- Japanese: “ポート・チャーマーズ”
- Malay: “Pelabuhan Chalmers”
- Maori: “Kōpūtai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Port Chalmers”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Port Chalmers”
- Norwegian: “Port Chalmers”
- Portuguese: “Port Chalmers”
- Spanish: “Port Chalmers”
- Turkish: “Port Chalmers”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Port Chalmers”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.