Baldwin Street facts for kids
A house on Baldwin Street
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| Namesake | William Baldwin |
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| Length | 350 m (1,150 ft) |
| Location | North East Valley, Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Postal code | 9010 |
| North end | North Road |
| South end | Buchanan Street |
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| Known for | World's steepest residential street until 2019 |
Baldwin Street, in Dunedin, New Zealand was the steepest street in the world. In 1987, Guinness World Records said it was the steepest. It is in the suburb of North East Valley. It is 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) northeast of Dunedin's central business district.
On 16 July 2019, Ffordd Pen Llech in Wales, became the world's steepest street. Baldwin Street's gradient is 35%, and Ffordd Pen Llech's gradient is 37.45%.
Images for kids
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Surveyor Toby Stoff in 2021
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The unicyclist has to lean forward to keep his centre of gravity centred over his unicycle's contact with Baldwin Street, on the steeper concrete covered portion of the street.
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Information sign at the bottom of the street which reports a gradient of 1 in 2.86 at the steepest point
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Looking upwards
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Photographed with the street level
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