Hardwicke Knight probably has a better knowledge of peninsula history than anyone has. In 1978, he published what is still the most thorough book on the area’s history, called simply Otago Peninsula. He has spent 45 of his 90 years living in one house at Broad Bay, which, since the death of his wife a couple of years ago, he shares with an old black dog. “I decided that we would live here on the peninsula before we ever left England,” he told me. “I chose it from an ordnance map.”