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Dunedin in Neuseeland.
| Article ID | OZ0315 |
Title | Dunedin in Neuseeland. |
Description | View of the city of Dunedin in Otago, New Zealand. After the photograph by Burton Brothers, Dunedin. |
| Year | ca. 1890 |
Artist | Anonymus |
Historical Description | Dunedin is the second largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the administrative seat of the Otago region. Documented is the first visit and contact of a European by the navigator and explorer James Cook in the spring of 1770. The first Europeans to set foot ashore on the coast of Otago were then also sealers and whalers who came over from Australia around 1809 to hunt. In 1844, Frederick Tuckett landed at Deborah Bay in Otago Harbour with a commission from the New Zealand Company to find a suitable site for settlement and town foundation. It was the Australian Thomas Gabriel Read whose gold discovery in 1861 triggered the gold rush in Otago. In 1882, the first cable streetcar (Cable Car) was built in Dunedin, modeled on the one in San Francisco, up to the Roslyn district, making it the first ever in the southern part of the globe. |
| Dimensions (cm) | 10 x 13,5 cm |
| Condition | Very good |
| Coloring | colored |
| Technique | Wood engraving |
Reproduction:
15.00 €
( A reproduction can be ordered individually on request. )