Did You Know . . .

• Taiaroa Head, on the Otago Peninsula, is the world's only mainland breeding colony of the Royal Albatross, large majestic seabirds with a wingspan of 3 metres. 

• Dunedin is home to the world's rarest penguin, the Yellow-Eyed Penguin or ‘Hoiho’. 

• Dunedin Botanic Garden is New Zealand’s first botanic garden. 

• Baldwin Street is the steepest street in the world. 

• Larnach Castle is New Zealand’s only castle. 

• University of Otago is New Zealand’s oldest university and the first in New Zealand to admit women to all their classes. 

• Otago Girls High School is the longest established girls' high school in the Southern Hemisphere and said to be the sixth oldest in the world. 

• New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame is, in effect, New Zealand’s national sports museum, the only one of its kind in the country representing New Zealand's greatest sporting achievements.

• Dunedin Railway Station is arguably the most photographed building in New Zealand. 

• Lake Sutton in Middlemarch is New Zealand's only inland saltlake. 

• The City of Dunedin is geographically the largest city in New Zealand at 3350 square kilometres.