New Zealand - Dunedin - "The Octagon, Dunedin's civic centre, showing the fine commercial buildings and churches of this important city" - 1960 Period - Originally published by Whites Aviation Limited #336771 The Octagon - The Octagon is the city centre of Dunedin, it is an eight-sided plaza with a circular one-way carriageway, bisected by the city's main street, and is also the central terminus of two other main thoroughfares. - First laid out in 1846, the site was largely derelict for many years until the two major early parts of the city's settlement (to the north and south of the Octagon) were linked by the excavation of Bell Hill. - The first major structure of any kind in The Octagon's reserve area was a monument erected in 1864 to the memory of William Cargill, Otago Superintendent.