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Oamaru Travel Guide

Oamaru accommodation, Oamaru activities and attractions, Oamaru maps, transportation to and around Oamaru - the ALL NEW Jasons Oamaru Destination Travel Guide is your complete visitor guide for Oamaru.

Blue PenguinHugging the shoreline of Friendly Bay, the coastal Otago town of Oamaru is known for its stately historic buildings, crafted in the locally quarried creamy-white Oamaru stone. The town's original business district is now preserved in the Harbour-Tyne Street Precinct and walking tours leave from the Visitor Centre at the corner of Thames and Itchen Streets. A big attraction for visitors is the wonderful coastal Moeraki Boulderswildlife, which includes native yellow-eyed penguins, little blue penguins and fur seals. A colony of the world's smallest penguin, the little blue penguin, nests around Oamaru Harbour from September to February, and there is also a penguin hide at nearby Bushy Beach. Oamaru's annual heritage celebrations take place in late November and feature the town's famous penny-farthing races

Geographic Location

Located on the shoreline of Friendly Bay, 116km north-east of Dunedin

Population

12,600

Climate

Continental climate

Annual temperature range
8 - 20°C

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