Calton Hill, New Zealand

Suburb in Dunedin, New Zealand

Calton Hill
Suburb
Calton Hill, as seen from above the Dunedin Southern Motorway.
Coordinates: 45°54′0″S 170°28′15″E / 45.90000°S 170.47083°E / -45.90000; 170.47083
Country	New Zealand
City	Dunedin
Established	1900s
Area [1]
• Land	66 ha (163 acres)
Population  (June 2024)[2]
• Total	1,630

Lookout Point	Balaclava	Maryhill
Burnside	Calton Hill	Caversham
Concord	Corstorphine	Kew

Calton Hill is an elevated southern residential suburb of the City of Dunedin in New Zealand's South Island.^[3] The suburb is named after Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland, and some of its street names carry similar etymological roots.

The suburb was established in the 1900s, as part of the second wave of suburban development in Dunedin. The parent suburb is Caversham, one of Dunedin's (and New Zealand's) oldest suburbs, established two generations prior as part of the first wave of settlement of the area. During the first wave of settlement before Calton Hill was established, it is unclear what modern day Calton Hill was called; possibilities include Caversham Hills or, more informally, John Sidey's farm.

Calton Hill is the geographical area bounded by the Dunedin Southern Motorway to the north and the Caversham Valley Forest Reserve beyond; farmland in the south and west that borders Concord and the Burnside industrial area; and an arbitrary eastern border of Corstorphine Road, Sidey Street, Cole Street and South Road (where it terminates near the Dunedin Southern Motorway). The South Island Main Trunk railway and the motorway (part of State Highway 1) further distinguish its northern border.

For many of those on the northern and eastern slopes, Calton Hill has views to Mt Cargill (Kapukataumahaka) and Flagstaff (Te Whanaupaki) in the north and the Pacific Ocean in the south-east. To the east, Calton Hill looks over the central plains of Dunedin city with Signal Hill (Te Pahuri o te Rangipohika), the Otago Harbour and Otago Peninsula in the distance. For those on the western slopes, the Kaikorai Valley and Green Island are in immediate view with Saddle Hill and the Taieri Plains beyond.