Cargill’s Castle
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 forty castles in New Zealand, the other one in Otago being nearby Larnach Castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Grutness, Public domain.
- Type: Ruins
- Description: New Zealand’s only castle ruin, located in Dunedin
- Also known as: “The Cliffs”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tunnel Beach and Majestic Mansions - Apartments at St Clair.
Tunnel Beach
Beach
Photo: Lord A.Nelson, 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.
Majestic Mansions - Apartments at St Clair
Apartment
Photo: DrThneed, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Majestic Mansions - Apartments at St Clair is situated 1 km northeast of Cargill’s Castle.
Queen’s High School
School
Queen's High School is a state single-sex girls' secondary school in Dunedin. It is located at the southern end of the city close to the boundary between the suburbs of St Clair and Forbury, next to the parallel single-sex boys' school, King's, with which it shares some facilities. Queen’s High School is situated 2 km northeast of Cargill’s Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Clair, New Zealand and Corstorphine.
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
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.
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.
Cargill’s Castle
- Categories: mansion, castle, building, and historic site
- Location: Dunedin City, Otago, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-45.91789° or 45° 55′ 4″ southLongitude
170.4805° or 170° 28′ 50″ eastInception
1877Open location code
4V6G3FJJ+R5OpenStreetMap ID
way 990593693OpenStreetMap feature
building=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q3798475
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In Other Languages
From Portuguese to Spanish—“Cargill’s Castle” goes by many names.
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Cargill”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Cargill”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include St Clair Golf Course and St. Clair Hot Salt Water Pool.
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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 “Cargill’s Castle”. Photo: Grutness, Public domain.