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Very Steep Street

Baldwin Street - street in the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. Street, registered in the Guinness Book of Records as the steepest street in the world. At 359 meters long street climbs to almost 80 meters. In this case, on the steepest segment of 161.2 meters, it rises to 47.22 meters, which creates a slope of 38 degrees.

Dunedin was founded in 1848. When building the city and there was the coolest street in the world. The steepness of the streets was unintentional. As was the case in many other parts of the city, and throughout New Zealand as a whole, the streets were planned in London, and completely without regard to topography.

Baldwin Street project, as well as all Dunedin, was designed by Charles Kettle, completely unsuspecting that the north-eastern part of the Dunedin area are not the most suitable for paving roads. And only came implement the project, workers found that they are waiting for a small trouble.

As a result, the upper part of the street, a steep, had to cover with concrete, or in hot weather of the asphalt, which is located on top, just trickled down to.

«Baldwin Street Gutbuster». Baldwin Street is the venue for the annual event called «Baldwin Street Gutbuster». It is a race in which competing as soon as possible to first run down the street from the bottom up and then down.

Baldwin is also on the street since 2002, the event is held annually under the title «Cadbury Jaffa Race», which is part of the festival «Dunedin Cadbury Chocolate Carnival». The essence of the «Cadbury Jaffa Race» in the following. About 30000 small round chocolate candies «Jaffas» roll on Baldwin Street from the top down.

Before starting each candy gets its own number which is printed on adhesive paper and pasted on a chocolate ball, so they can be distinguished from one another, and each candy has a sponsor.

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