Port Chalmers
| Port Chalmers | ||
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 50 ′ S , 170 ° 37 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-OTA | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Otago | |
| District | Dunedin City | |
| Ward | Central Ward | |
| Residents | 1 365 (2013) | |
| height | 15 m | |
| Post Code | 9023 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 3 | |
| UN / LOCODE | NZ POE | |
| website | www.portchalmers.com | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 Main Road with a view of the port facility |
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Port Chalmers is a port town in the urban area of Dunedin City on the South Island of New Zealand .
geography
Port Chalmers is located about 11 km northeast of the city center of Dunedin directly on Otago Harbor , via which the port of the place has access to the Pacific Ocean . Even if Port Chalmers seems quite independent, it has been part of the city of Dunedin as one of the 72 area units since the administrative reform in the 1980s .
history
On April 26, 1844, Frederick Tuckett landed in Deborah Bay in Otago Harbor with the New Zealand Company in his luggage to find a suitable location for the settlement and founding of the city of New Edinburgh , today's Dunedin . Apart from earlier contacts of European-born whale and seal hunters with the region, this date represents the first significant point in the history of Port Chalmers . In July 1844, Tuckett bought 162 hectares of land, the so-called Otago Block, from the local Māori . The trade was carried out in Koputai Bay , the place where the town center with the port is today.
On February 23, 1846 Surveyor reached Charles Henry Kettle the Koputai Bay , plans drawn up for the establishment of Port Chalmers , named after the mathematician , professor of moral philosophy and leader of the Free Church of Scotland , Thomas Chalmers . He then moved to the end of the Bay of Otago Harbor to plan the founding of New Edinburgh .
On March 23 and April 15, 1848, the first 347 Scottish settlers arrived in Port Chalmers on two ships, led by Captain William Cargill and the Reverent Thomas Burns .
The place quickly became the most important and largest port in the Otago region and port for Dunedin, which was founded in 1848 . In order to better cope with the ever increasing freight and passenger transport, a railway line between Port Chalmers and Dunedin was put into operation as early as 1872 . In 1879, New Zealand's first telephone office was inaugurated in Port Chalmers , at the same time as Portobello , on the other side of Otago Harbor, and the world's first shipment of frozen meat started from Port Chalmers . Fully loaded with meat and butter, the SS Dunedin cast off on February 15, 1882 for the port of destination London.
When the fairway in the Upper Harbor was dredged from Port Chalmers to Dunedin for seagoing ships in the 1880s , Port Chalmers initially lost its leading position as a seaport compared to Dunedin . But almost a hundred years later, in the 1970s, the tide turned again in favor of Port Chalmers . The ever increasing export of wood gave its port new orders and contributed to its rise. The port was expanded and converted into New Zealand's first container port. In 1977, the Godwit, the first container ship, was unloaded.
population
In the 2013 census, the town had 1,365 inhabitants, 2.2% more than in the 2006 census.
economy
the port of Port Chalmers is now New Zealand's third largest port in terms of freight value and New Zealand's most important export port for international sea freight . In 2006, the port generated around NZ $ 177 million with 280 employees .
In order to be able to do justice to the next generation of container ships, the port and the fairway of the Lower Harbor are to be expanded further from 2007 onwards. This will enable ships with a capacity of up to 6000 containers and a length of 320 meters and a draft of 14.5 meters to call at the port.
Panoramic photo
See also
literature
- Edward Stewart Dollimore : Port Chalmers . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed September 5, 2014]).
- Rollo Arnold : The Farthest Promised Land . Victoria University Press , Wellington 1981 (English, online [accessed September 5, 2014] Illustration by Port Chalmers from the 1870s).
- Port sets sail to the future . In: Allied Press Limited (Ed.): Otago Daily Times . Dunedin August 8, 2007 (English).
Web links
- Homepage . not-for-profit group of Port Chalmers locals,accessed September 5, 2014.
- Homepage . Port Chalmers Maritime Museum,accessed September 5, 2014.
- Passenger arrivals at Port Chalmers, New Zealand, March 1848 - January 1851 . Ngaio Press,accessed September 5, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 2013 Census QuickStats about a place: Port Chalmers . Statistics New Zealand , accessed October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed October 4, 2017 .
- ↑ The Ninetheenth Century Heritage: Refrigeration and the Meat Industry. techhistory.co.nz, accessed September 5, 2014 .