Baldwin Street. The street, which is not steeper Bashny.Net

Baldwin Street is the second largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, Dunedin. It originates from North Road and ends at the intersection with Buchanan Street.

The length of the street 359 meters. Baldwin Street is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest residential street in the world in his over it rises to a height of nearly 80 meters. The coolest section 161 is 2 meters and the level of recovery it 47, 22 meters, which corresponds to a slope of 38 degrees.



Dunedin was founded in 1848. The steepness of the street was unintentional, since the whole architecture of the streets were planned in London, with absolutely no adjustments for relief.



Baldwin Street Project, as well as all Dunedin, was designed by Charles Kettle, completely unaware that the north-eastern part of Dunedin's not the most suitable terrain for paving roads. Only the workers found that they are waiting for big trouble. As a result, the upper part of the street had to cover the concrete, or in hot weather of the asphalt pavement trickled down to.



Baldwin Street is the venue for the annual event called «Baldwin Street Gutbuster». It is a race in which competing as quickly as possible is necessary first to run down the street from the bottom up and then from top to bottom. The competition takes place every summer, in February since 1988.





Also on Baldwin Street since 2002, held every year an event called «Cadbury Jaffa Race». During the festival, about 30,000 small round chocolate candies «Jaffas» roll on Baldwin Street from the top down.



Before starting each candy gets its own number, so they can be distinguished from each other. Each candy has a sponsor. Then there is start «Jaffas».



On the descent from candy usually takes 15 to 25 seconds. Shortly before the finish candies fall into a special funnel, and the first five balls passed through the funnel, is the winner. All proceeds go to charity.