Aramoana is a small coastal settlement 27 kilometres (17 mi) north of Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand.

In the 1950s, the town became popular as a beach resort and a rural life village due to the construction of a mole to inhibit the spread of tidal sands into the mouth of Otago Harbour and was surveyed and amalgamated as a suburb of Port Chalmers borough.

It is the site of the Aramoana massacre, New Zealand's second deadliest criminal shooting, on 13 and 14 November 1990.

This area is a protected Wildlife Sanctuary, which hosts a range of plant and animal life, both native and exotic.

[5] In the late 1970s Aramoana was proposed as the site of a major aluminium smelter by a consortium of New Zealand-based Fletcher Challenge, Australia's CSR Limited and Swiss firm Alusuisse.

Among the leaders were three Otago psychologists: Peter Bradshaw, Jules Older and Richard Thomson.

A large number of Otago artists and performers also contributed to the successful drive to save Aramoana.

In 2006, New Zealand director Robert Sarkies released a film based on the events, Out of the Blue.