27 December 2010 to January 17, 2011 -
Part 3 - In Dunedin, the Scottish ...
Dunedin is the second city of the South Island, and the regional capital of Otago.
The Scottish first wave of immigration brought home their traditions and culture. The University of Dunedin, founded in 1871, the first in New Zealand today has some 18,000 students, nearly one fifth of the population of the city.
A century earlier, in February 1770, Captain J. Cook passed the first in the Otago Peninsula, which forms a natural harbor deep and sheltered.
He noted in his diary, besides the presence of penguins and albatrosses, the large amount of seals and sea lion he sees on shore, and the presence of many cetaceans at sea, helping to attract to the region in the decades that followed, many sealers and whalers.
Unfortunately, hygiene is minimized on board these ships, whose crews are not made otherwise than choirboys ... far from it!
Ships Sealers and whalers bring with them diseases like measles and influenza, not to mention the venereal diseases that decimate together quickly and the Maori population, mainly located on the coast.
In 1848, after the inter-tribal strife and the devastating impact of diseases on the local population has barely a hundred inhabitants Maori survivors in the coastal region of Otago ...
The place is free for the settlers.
In 1840, the New Zealand Company, newly established with the support of the British crown, decides to create a Scottish city.
At that time, the economy is a disaster in Scotland, nearly a quarter of the population of working age do not get a job.
candidates for emigration are not lacking.
The New Zealand Company is authorized to buy land from Maori, and in 1848 a first wave of 344 Scottish immigrants landed in Port Chalmers. The following year, almost 700 other settlers who arrived in the United Kingdom, but the first Scottish permanently leave their mark on the city.
Dunedin retain its strong character came from the banks of the Clyde, and there are still a store of kilts.
Sometimes the harmonious sounds of a bagpipe rises on a street corner ...
From 1861, the discovery of some gold veins causes a rush the yellow metal, which will last twenty years. The port city of Dunedin and quickly take advantage of this boom, and when the gold fever falls at the end of the century, rail and maritime infrastructures allow the Otago region to continue its economic development, mainly agricultural.
The city of Dunedin is then the largest in New Zealand, and the second in the world after San Francisco, have a tram network in cable.
In 1882, the first refrigerated ship sailed from Port Chalmers, in charge of New Zealand meat (mutton and beef), to London. On 24 May the same year, some three months later, the meat landed on the banks of the Thames is selling at double the expected price.
New Zealand has found one of its main economic vocations ...
The shopping center of Dunedin, by George Street. ..
Speights Brewery, which manufactures in Dunedin one of the many beers from countries ...
Dunedin Railway Station, built in 1906, imposing.
The Cadbury chocolate factory supplies throughout the country ...
coffees from the center of Dunedin, a day of cold weather, on Moray Place ...
At the time of the waves of immigration of the late 19th century, the opinions of departing ships to NZ were posted on walls Glasgow .
Scotland, homeland of the pioneers of Otago, is almost 19 000 km ...
coffees from the center of Dunedin, a day of cold weather, on Moray Place ...
loves Barbara Merino, a natural material made of sheep's wool eponymous mixed with possum fur.
The label 100% New Zealand made generally good products.
In Warehouse, I found the little grill of my dreams. But I have to give up on the board Jangada ...
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