The Northern Cemetery

40 Lovelock Avenue, Dunedin North, Dunedin 9016

The Northern Cemetery contains the most spectacular memorial in the city 

- that of the owner of "Larnach's Castle" - whose skull with the holes of a fatal bullet was absent from the grave for a few years.  

It also contains

  • The remains of the author of New Zealand's National Anthem,

  • The builder of a clock which has run without winding since the 1860s,

  • Three men hanged in the Dunedin jail yard (one whose skull is still missing)

  • New Zealand's first female doctor

  • A little boy who drowned at the wharves, aged five, in 1909.

90 minutes long - starting time 3pm