Challis History

Challis Point has long been a familiar name to those driving down the Peninsula, its story beginning in the 1860s when the Challis family established a thriving market garden here, known as "Greenwich Park." George and Jane Challis arrived from Tasmania in 1863, clearing bush and raising nine children on their 20-acre property, elevated above the harbour. With no low road along the Peninsula in those early days, the now short 3 km trip to Dunedin was made by sea.

Their eldest son, George Jnr, sailed the family cutter across the harbour, delivering fresh produce a task that sparked his lifelong passion for yachting. Today, the same outlook, contours and connection to the harbour that served the Challis family now shape a new chapter of life at Challis Point-offering a rare opportunity to be part of this enduring landscape.