Port Chalmers

Port Chalmers
Māori: Kōpūtai
Settlement
Looking across Port Chalmers and the Otago Harbour to the Otago Peninsula
Looking across Port Chalmers and the Otago Harbour to the Otago Peninsula
Map
Coordinates: 45°49′04″S 170°37′08″E / 45.8178°S 170.6188°E / -45.8178; 170.6188
CountryNew Zealand
IslandSouth Island
RegionOtago
Territorial authorityDunedin
Community boardWest Harbour Community Board[1]
Electorates
Government
 • Territorial authorityDunedin City Council
 • Regional councilOtago Regional Council
 • Mayor of DunedinJules Radich
 • Dunedin MPRachel Brooking
 • Te Tai Tonga MPTākuta Ferris
Area
 • Total3.24 km2 (1.25 sq mi)
Population
 (June 2023)[3]
 • Total1,470
 • Density450/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+12 (NZST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+13 (NZDT)
Area code03
Local iwiNgāi Tahu

Port Chalmers (Māori: Kōpūtai)[4][5] is a town serving as the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast of Dunedin's city centre.

  1. ^ "2016 West Harbour Community Board Boundary" (PDF). dunedin.govt.nz. Dunedin City Council. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Population estimate tables - NZ.Stat". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  4. ^ J.H., Beattie (1954). "Our Southernmost Maoris. Their habitat. Nature notes. Problems and perplexities. Controversial and conversational. Further place names. Antiquity of man in New Zealand". Otago Daily Times. Dunedin, New Zealand. p. 130.
  5. ^ W.A, Taylor (1952). "Lore and history of the South Island Māori". Bascands. Christchurch, New Zealand. p. 163.

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