Dunedin (disambiguation)

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand. It is named for Dùn Èideann, the capital of Scotland, generally Anglicised as Edinburgh (a semi-calque, in which burgh is a literal translation of the Gaelic dun, meaning fort.)

Dunedin may also refer to:

Places

Australia
  • Dunedin, Western Australia
Canada
  • Dunedin, Ontario
New Zealand
South Africa
  • Dunedin, Eastern Cape
United Kingdom
  • Edinburgh, whose Scottish Gaelic name is Dùn Èideann
United States
Zimbabwe
  • Dunedin, Zimbabwe

Other

  • Dunedin River, a river in British Columbia, Canada
  • The Dunedin Consort, an Edinburgh-based choral ensemble founded in 1996
  • HMS Dunedin (D93), a Royal Navy light cruiser in the Second World War
  • Dunedin (ship), the first commercial ship with refrigeration equipment
  • Duneedon a.k.a. Don Edon (fictional character), a villain in the TVOntario children's educational television series Read All About It!; the name was derived from Dunedin, Ontario, and has approximately the same pronunciation.
  • Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study - a long-running study of 1037 people born over the course of a year in Dunedin, New Zealand.

See also

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