The Octagon through time

Dunedin 1863–2021 7 photos of this spot

7 photographs taken at the same spot in Dunedin, spanning 1863–2021 — 1 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Princes Street, Dunedin, during the Otago gold rush era, 1863. Source: Te Papa Tongarewa, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

Princes Street, Dunedin 1863 Princes Street, Dunedin, during the Otago gold rush era, 1863. Source: Te Papa Tongarewa, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).

Robert Burns Statue in the Octagon, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand 2008 A statue of the poet Robert Burns in the Octagon, the central public square of Dunedin, New Zealand, photographed in 2008. Dunedin was settled in the 19th century by Scottish immigrants, whose heritage the statue commemorates.

00 1511 Dunedin, New Zealand - Law Courts 2009 The Dunedin Law Courts, New Zealand, photographed in 2009. Completed in 1902 in an Oamaru stone Gothic style, the building continues to house the city's district and high courts.

00 1509 Dunedin, New Zealand - Law Courts 2009 Another view of the Dunedin Law Courts, New Zealand, photographed in 2009. The Edwardian building, faced in local Oamaru limestone, was completed in the early 1900s.

Lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda 2014 Lower Stuart Street in Dunedin, New Zealand is shown in 2014, part of a thoroughfare lined with Victorian and Edwardian-era buildings in the city's historic center.

The Octagon 2021 The Octagon, the eight-sided public square at the heart of Dunedin, New Zealand, is shown in this 2021 photograph. Laid out when Scottish settlers founded the city in 1848, it remains Dunedin's civic and social center.

Regent Theatre exterior 01 2021 The exterior of the Regent Theatre in Dunedin, New Zealand, a performing arts venue in the city center that has hosted stage productions for decades. Dunedin's downtown retains a notable concentration of Victorian and Edwardian buildings from the city's 19th-century prosperity.