Aramoana

Aramoana is a small coastal settlement north of Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand. The settlement's permanent population in the 2001 Census was 261. Supplementing this are seasonal visitors from the city who occupy cribs. The name Aramoana is Māori for "pathway of the sea".

Key facts

Settlement.name: Aramoana
Settlement.type: Rural settlement
Settlement.image_skyline: Aramoana.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Looking east across the mouth of Otago Harbour; Aramoana settlement to the lower right
Settlement.mapframe: yes
Settlement.mapframe zoom: 9
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: New Zealand
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Island
Settlement.subdivision_name2: South Island
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Otago
Settlement.subdivision_type4: City
Settlement.subdivision_name4: Dunedin
Settlement.subdivision_type5: Community board
Settlement.subdivision_name5: West Harbour Community Board
Settlement.seat_type: Electorates
Settlement.leader_title: Territorial authority

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Wikidata facts

Population: 111
Image: Aramoana.jpg

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Location and natural environment
Demographics
Save Aramoana Campaign
Aramoana massacre
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It was founded by the Otago Harbour Board and established in the 1880s as a pilot station for navigation around the mouth of the Otago Harbour. This area grew into a small farming village. In the 1950s, the town became popular as a beach resort and a rural life village due to the construction of a mole to inhibit the spread of tidal sands into the mouth of Otago Harbour and was surveyed and amalgamated as a suburb of Port Chalmers borough.