It’s easy to lose yourself in all the things Invercargill has to offer, but it’s virtually impossible to get lost in the city. Thanks to surveyor John Turnbull Thomson - who laid out the city during the 1850s - the city’s main streets are 40metres wide and form a grid, running mostly west to east or north to south.

Invercargill is also predominately flat, making walking easy and giving elevated sites in the south of the city virtually unobstructed views of the Takitimu Mountains to the north and Mt Anglem, on Stewart Island, to the south.