Arana College

Arana College is a residential college of the University of Otago, founded in 1943 by the Rev. William Turner and the Stuart Residence Halls Council. The name "Arana" is a Māori transliteration of "Allen", chosen to honour Sir James Allen, a former Vice Chancellor (1903-1909) and Chancellor (1909–1912) of the University of Otago. The current warden is Jamie Gilbertson. The main administration areas of Arana are based in what was once Sir James Allen’s Queen Anne-style mansion. The hall is located immediately to the northeast of the central campus, at the top of a small but steep rise known as Tanna Hill (a corruption of "Botanic Hill", after the nearby first site of the Dunedin Botanic Gardens). It overlooks the Otago Campus only 200...