Otago Harbour
Otago Harbour is a long, much indented stretch of generally navigable water (a drowned volcanic crater) separating Otago Peninsula from the main urban areas of Dunedin, New Zealand. They join at its southwest end.Substantial container port facilities exist at Port Chalmers, halfway along the harbour. With regular dredging, fairly large ships can sail all the way to the heart of Dunedin, where the country's frozen meat export trade began in the nineteenth century.
Near the mouth of the harbour is a partly-forested sandspit called Aramoana, infamous for a massacre of 13 people by a deranged gunman last century. Adjacent to Aramoana is the site that was proposed for New Zealand's second aluminium smelter.
Other settlements by the harbour include Ravensbourne (with a fertiliser works), Sawyers Bay (with a tannery), Macandrew Bay, and Portobello.
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