Seacliff, New Zealand
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 Seacliff
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| Coordinates: 45°41′S 170°37′E / 45.683°S 170.617°ECoordinates: 45°41′S 170°37′E / 45.683°S 170.617°E | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Region | Otago |
| Territorial authority | Dunedin City Council |
| Population (approx.) | |
| • Total | 100 |
| Time zone | NZST (UTC+12) |
| • Summer (DST) | NZDT (UTC+13) |
Seacliff is a small village located north of Dunedin in the Otago region of New Zealand's South Island. The village lies roughly halfway between the estuary of Blueskin Bay and the mouth of the Waikouaiti River at Karitane, on the eastern slopes of Kilmog hill. Coast Road, an old route north from Dunedin, and the South Island Main Trunk Railway pass through the village.
Seacliff is the site of the former Seacliff Lunatic Asylum a mental institution built in the late 19th century and, for many years, the nation's largest public building. The hospital was designed by architect Robert Lawson and managed for many years by Sir Frederic Truby King, who also founded New Zealand's Plunket, a post-natal health charity. Writer Janet Frame was notable among the mental institution many patients. A commemorative plaque on a magnolia tree commemorates the years Janet Frame spent at Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. In 1942, just prior to Frame's first admission, the mental institution was the site of one of the nation's major disasters when a massive fire engulfed the fifth ward, resulting in the death of 37 of the 39 female residents who remained locked in their cells.
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