DescriptionPort Chalmers, neighboured by Careys Bay, Sawyers Bay and Roseneath, is situated 14 km north-east of Dunedin, on the north side of Otago Harbour.
The locality, known to Māori as Kōpūtai, is where local Ngāi Tahu sold the Otago block to the New Zealand Company in 1844. A European town was founded there when Otago was settled in 1848. It was named after Thomas Chalmers, the Free Church of Scotland leader who had died the previous year.
The Union Steam Ship Company started in 1875, and one early building – a pumphouse – survives at Port Chalmers. In 1882 the first frozen meat shipped from New Zealand to the northern hemisphere left from the port.
Port Chalmers became a borough in 1866, and part of Dunedin city in 1989.
(sourced from Te Ara, https://teara.govt.nz/en/otago-places/page-4)Location[1]
