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 ten castles in New Zealand, the other one in Otago being nearby Larnach Castle.
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
Majestic Mansions - Apartments at St Clair
Apartment
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
Calton Hill
Suburb
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″ south
Longitude
170.4805° or 170° 28′ 50″ east
Inception
1877
Open location code
4V6G3FJJ+R5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=ruins
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Cargill’s Castle from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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 Club and St. Clair Hot Salt Water Pool.
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