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Dunedin has flourishing niche industries including engineering, software engineering, bio-technology and fashion. Invercargill.
The cityscape glitters with gems of Victorian and Edwardian architecture - the legacy of the city's gold-rush affluence - many including First Church and Larnach Castle designed by one of New Zealand's most eminent architects R A Lawson. Other prominent buildings include Olveston and the magnificent Dunedin Railway Station. Other not-to-be missed attractions include the world's steepest street (Baldwin Street), the famous Captain Cook Tavern, and the local Speight's brewery. Tourists and students alike appreciate tours of the Cadbury chocolate factory.
 The Dunedin Botanic Garden
The Dunedin Botanic Garden
Dunedin is also notable now as centre for ecotourism. Uniquely, the world's only mainland royal albatross colony and several penguin and seal colonies lie within the city boundaries on Otago Peninsula. To the south of Dunedin, located on the western side of Lake Waihola, lie the Sinclair Wetlands.
The thriving tertiary student population has led to Dunedin having a vibrant youth culture, which came to prominence with the "Dunedin Sound" bands of the 1980s (such as The Chills, The Clean, Straitjacket Fits, and The Verlaines), and more recently a burgeoning boutique fashion industry. A very strong visual arts community lives in Dunedin and its environs.
 St Clair Beach, Dunedin
St Clair Beach, Dunedin
Sport is catered for in Dunedin by the floodlit Rugby and cricket venue of Carisbrook, a soccer and athletics stadium (the New Caledonian Ground) at Logan Park, close to the University, and numerous golf courses and parks. There is also a horseracing circuit in the south of the city (Forbury Park). Saint Clair Beach, on the city's Pacific shore, is a well-known surfing venue.
The climate is moderate. Winter can be frosty, but significant snowfall is uncommon (perhaps every two or three years), except in the inland hill suburbs such as Halfway Bush and Wakari. Spring can feature "four seasons in a day" weather, but from November to April it is generally settled and mild.
Dunedin features the world's most southern motorway: this 10 kilometre divided highway section of State Highway One (SH1) runs from the centre of the city to the southern suburb of Mosgiel.
Although Dunedin's railway station, once the nation's busiest, is no longer served by regular commercial passenger trains, it is used by tourist services. The most prominent of these is the Taieri Gorge Limited, a popular and famous train operated daily by the Otago Central Railway through the scenic Taieri Gorge. The station is also sometimes visited by excursions organised by other heritage railway societies, as well as trains chartered by cruise ships docking in Port Chalmers.
Local media in Dunedin include the daily community newspapers, local radio stations (including the University's station, Radio One), and Channel 9 a local television station.
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The arts
Thomas Bracken (21 December 1843 -- 16 February 1898), the noted late-19th century poet who wrote the New Zealand National Anthem God Defend New Zealand and who was the first person to publish the phrase "God's Own Country".
Illustrator and engraver John Buckland Wright.
M?ori sculptor Carissa Proffit (b 1974), who works in Oamaru stone.
Nobel Prize short-listee Janet Frame, born there in 1924, died there in 2004: NZ Edge biography
Writer Globe Theatre.
Cartoonist David Low lived in Dunedin before making his fame in London.
Caricature artist Murray Webb remains a resident.
M?ori painter Ralph Hotere lives and works in Port Chalmers.
Painters Jeffrey Harris and Claire Beynon all live in Dunedin.
Actor Sam Neill has close associations with Dunedin.
Playwright Roger Hall lived and wrote in Dunedin for several years.
Prominent architects Francis Petre and Robert Lawson both lived and worked in Dunedin.
Many of New Zealand’s top bands of the 1980s and early 1990s started out in Dunedin, establishing the Martin Phillipps and David Kilgour.
The Malaysian novelist John Ling is a resident.
Politics and business
A large proportion of the country's leading companies in and beyond the 20th century originated in Dunedin. A selection of relevant company or brand names includes Arthur Barnett, Donaghy, Fletcher, Fulton Hogan, Hallenstein, Methven, Mosgiel, NZI, Ravensdown, Wests, Whitcoulls, and Wrightson.
The Bell Tea Company was founded here in 1898 and still has one of its factories in Hope Street.
Deputy Prime Minister (since 1999) Michael Cullen was Member of Parliament for the Dunedin electorate of Saint Kilda from 1981 until 1999.
Science
Tramway and mining engineer George Smith Duncan was born in Dunedin in 1852, attended the University of Otago and was instrumental in building the Dunedin cable tramway system.
Two of the founders of modern plastic surgery, Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe were born in Dunedin in 1882 and 1900 respectively.
Popular email program Pegasus Mail was written by David Harris while he was employed by the University of Otago.
Sport
World record-breaking middle-distance athlete Jack Lovelock lived in the city, as did Olympic champions long jumper Yvette (nee. Williams) Corlett and swimmer Danyon Loader.
Other sporting celebrities to have lived in Dunedin include Rugby) Jeff Wilson.
Military
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Duncan Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross, 1864-Japan, was buried in Dunedin in 1869.
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The city was possibly the origin of the first Anzac biscuits.
Dunedin was the city in which Speights beer was first brewed.
Dunedin is the most remote city in the world from Berlin (18200 km). So if a European person wants to visit a remote place, this is the city to visit.
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