Roseneath, Otago
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Roseneath is a small suburb of the New Zealand
city of Dunedin
, located on the northwestern shore of Otago Harbour
, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to the northeast of Dunedin city centre. It is situated between Saint Leonards and Port Chalmers
on a rocky promontory of the same name which juts 0.6 kilometre (0.372823641989884 mi) into the harbour between Sawyers Bay
and Blanket Bay. The suburb and promontory are likely to have been named from the similar location of Rosneath
in Scotland.
State Highway 88
, linking Port Chalmers
and central Dunedin traverses a low saddle immediately to the west of the suburb, and the South Island Main Trunk rail line passes through a tunnel beneath the promontory. The suburb's few streets include District Road, Shandon Road, and Clyde Road. Panoramic views of the harbour can be gained from close to the short peninsula's southernmost point, Kilgour Point.
Prior to local body reorganisation in New Zealand in the late 1980s, Roseneath was a suburb of Port Chalmers.
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
city of Dunedin
Dunedin
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
, located on the northwestern shore of Otago Harbour
Otago Harbour
Otago Harbour is the natural harbour of Dunedin, New Zealand, consisting of a long, much-indented stretch of generally navigable water separating the Otago Peninsula from the mainland. They join at its southwest end, from the harbour mouth...
, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to the northeast of Dunedin city centre. It is situated between Saint Leonards and Port Chalmers
Port Chalmers
Port Chalmers is a suburb and the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, with a population of 3,000. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast from Dunedin's city centre....
on a rocky promontory of the same name which juts 0.6 kilometre (0.372823641989884 mi) into the harbour between Sawyers Bay
Sawyers Bay
Sawyers Bay is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located to the southwest of Port Chalmers in a wide valley on the shore of Mussel Bay, to the northeast of Dunedin city centre....
and Blanket Bay. The suburb and promontory are likely to have been named from the similar location of Rosneath
Rosneath
Rosneath is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It sits on the western shore of the Gare Loch near to the tip of the Rosneath peninsula which projects south to the Firth of Clyde between the Gare Loch and Loch Long to the west, and about 2 miles from the village of Kilcreggan which is sited...
in Scotland.
State Highway 88
New Zealand State Highway 88
State Highway 88 is a New Zealand State Highway connecting the city centre of Dunedin with Port Chalmers, which is the location of Dunedin's main port facilities and home of one of New Zealand's major container terminals. It is roughly 18 km long....
, linking Port Chalmers
Port Chalmers
Port Chalmers is a suburb and the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand, with a population of 3,000. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast from Dunedin's city centre....
and central Dunedin traverses a low saddle immediately to the west of the suburb, and the South Island Main Trunk rail line passes through a tunnel beneath the promontory. The suburb's few streets include District Road, Shandon Road, and Clyde Road. Panoramic views of the harbour can be gained from close to the short peninsula's southernmost point, Kilgour Point.
Prior to local body reorganisation in New Zealand in the late 1980s, Roseneath was a suburb of Port Chalmers.