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Sailing ship Alcestis run aground, probably in Otago Harbour through time

Dunedin 1880–1898 2 photos of this spot

2 photographs taken at the same spot in Dunedin, spanning 1880–1898 — 2 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

The sailing ship Alcestis lies run aground, believed to be in Otago Harbour near Dunedin, New Zealand, sometime in the 1880s, a period when sailing vessels still carried much of the colony's overseas trade despite the growing use of steamships.

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Sailing ship Alcestis run aground, probably in Otago Harbour, Dunedin, 1880
Sailing ship Alcestis run aground, probably in Otago Harbour 1880 The sailing ship Alcestis lies run aground, believed to be in Otago Harbour near Dunedin, New Zealand, sometime in the 1880s, a period when sailing vessels still carried much of the colony's overseas trade despite the growing use of steamships.
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