St Clair, New Zealand

St Clair
Suburb
St Clair Beach
St Clair Beach
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Coordinates: 45°54′40″S 170°29′10″E / 45.91111°S 170.48611°E / -45.91111; 170.48611
CountryNew Zealand
CityDunedin
Established1850s
Area
[1]
 • Land203 ha (502 acres)
Population
 (June 2023)[2]
 • Total2,450
Corstorphine Forbury, Kew South Dunedin
St Clair Park
St Clair
 St Kilda
Pacific Ocean
St Clair Beach, with the head of Forbury Hill in the background. The swimming pool is visible close to the ocean's edge at top right.
Second Beach and the head of Forbury Hill
The Frances Hodgkins Retirement Village and the spire of Dunedin's LDS Church meetinghouse are visible against the cliffs of the former quarry that lies to the west of Forbury Road.
Valpy Street is named for the suburb's founding father, W.H. Valpy. His homestead was located close to the brown and white house on the slopes of Forbury Hill in the background of this picture.
Pinner House, Cliffs Road, designed by F. W. Petre in the Tudor architectural style

St Clair is a leafy residential suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand.[3] It is located on the Pacific Ocean coast five kilometres from the city centre on the southwesternmost part of the coastal plain which makes up the southern part of the urban area, and also climbs the slopes of Forbury Hill immediately to the west of this plain. St Clair's 2001 population was 4,179.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Area was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Population estimate tables - NZ.Stat". Statistics New Zealand. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Place name detail: St Clair". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 6 March 2009.