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Line 22: Other tourist attractions on the peninsula include [[Larnach Castle]], a restored Armstrong 'disappearing' gun coastal defence post, and a war memorial [[cairn]]. There are views of the city and surrounding country from Highcliff Road, which runs along the spine of the peninsula. The total population of the peninsula is under 10,000, with about half of these in the suburbs of Dunedin that encroach onto its western end, such as [[Vauxhall, Otago\|Vauxhall]] and [[Shiel Hill]]. Mostly, only the side adjacent to the Otago Harbour is populated, with several small communities dotting the length of the peninsula. Largest of these are [[Macandrew Bay, New Zealand\|Macandrew Bay]] (the peninsula's largest settlement, population 1,100), [[Portobello, New Zealand\|Portobello]], and [[Otakou\|Ōtākou]]. ~~Otakou~~Otākou was the site of the first permanent European settlement on the harbour, and of an early [[whaling]] station, commemorated at nearby Weller's Rock. There were several other whaling stations inside the harbour and outer peninsula, including the Middle Fishery Station at [[Harington Point]].<ref>{{cite web \|title= Whaling Station Locations \|publisher= Shore Whalers Wahine \|url= http://www.whalerswahine.com/pdfs/List.pdf \|access-date= 10 May 2020}}</ref> [[File:Otago Peninsula from Mount Cargill.jpg\|thumb\|center\|800px\|Panorama of Otago Peninsula from [[Mt. Cargill]], looking southeast across Otago Harbour. On the extreme left are the harbour mouth, Aramoana and Taiaroa Head. Near the centre is Harbour Cone, and below it Broad Bay. Portobello and Macandrew Bay are to the left and right respectively. [[Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua]] is mid left above Port Chalmers.]] Line 52: [[James Cook]] sailed past in February 1770 and named [[Cape Saunders]] after the Secretary of the Admiralty. His chart showed a bay at Hooper's Inlet, which may have been explored and named by Charles Hooper (chief officer on Daniel Cooper's English sealer, ''Unity'') in the summer of 1808–1809. Sealers began to use the harbour around then, probably anchoring off Wellers' Rock, modern ~~Otakou~~Ōtākou, where there was extensive Māori settlement. [[Otago Harbour]] is where the [[Sealers' War]] began, sparked by an incident on the ''Sydney Cove'' while her men were sealing at Cape Saunders. This led to [[James Kelly (Australian explorer)\|James Kelly]]'s 1817 attack on 'the City of Otago' (probably the Te Rauone settlement(s)), after [[William Tucker (settler)\|William Tucker]] and others were killed at Whareakeake (Murdering Beach) further north. Peace was re-established by 1823. 1826 saw the visit of the [[New Zealand Company ships#Rosanna\|''Rosanna'']] and the [[New Zealand Company ships#Lambton\|''Lambton'']], ships of the first New Zealand Company. They also brought the first recorded European women to NZ, and produced Thomas Shepherd's pictures of the Peninsula. Shepherd's paintings are the oldest known, and are held in the Sydney's [[Mitchell Library]]. In November 1831 the [[Weller brothers]], Joseph, George and Edward, established their whaling station at Wellers' Rock. Throughout the '30s, their Otago establishment grew to be the largest in the country and the harbour became an international whaling port. In 1841 Octavius Harwood and C.W. Schultze took over the Wellers' operation.