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The former port town of OAMARU is one of New Zealand's more alluring provincial cities, and a relaxed place to spend a day or two. Perhaps the most immediate attraction is the presence of both blue and yellow-eyed penguin colonies on the outskirts of town, but the town itself has a well-preserved Historic District, a core of nineteenth-century buildings built of the distinctive cream-coloured local limestone that earned Oamaru the title "The Whitestone City".
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