Green Island, New Zealand
Green Island is a suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand. It is not on the sea — formerly a borough, it took its name from the Green Island bush, uncleared native forest extending from the valley where the town is centred over the hills towards the coast. The offshore island's name was used to identify the bush.
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[edit] Green Island
Green Island, since 1989 officially an outer suburb of Dunedin, is on State Highway 1 8 km (5 mi) west of the Dunedin CBD, at 45°54′11″S 170°26′04″E / 45.90306°S 170.434384°E. It has a population (2001) of 2,430. Green Island's main economy is based on light and small scale heavy industry.
[edit] Abbotsford
Immediately to the north of Green Island, and only separated from it by the State Highway and South Island Main Trunk Railway, is Abbotsford. Abbotsford is an entirely residential suburb with virtually no retail or service sector of its own - for these it relies on Green Island which lies only some 300 metres to the south. Abbotsford has a population of 1,677.
[edit] The Abbotsford landslip
On the night of August 8, 1979, a major landslide occurred in Abbotsford, resulting in the destruction or relocation of some 69 houses, and requiring the evacuation of over 600 people. No-one was killed. This remains the largest landslip to have occurred in an urban area of New Zealand.
[edit] Sunnyvale
At the southern end of Abbotsford is the smaller suburb of Sunnyvale. This was until the early 2000s the site of the main road routh south out of Dunedin, but it and Fairfield immediately to the south were bypassed by a motorway extension in 2002.
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Coordinates: 45°57′S 170°23′E / 45.95°S 170.383°E
