Puysegur Point is a headland located in the far southwest of the South Island of New Zealand.

[1] It lies within Fiordland National Park on the southern head of Preservation Inlet and is 145 kilometres (90 mi) west-northwest of Invercargill.

Puysegur Point has been said to be the windiest place in New Zealand, with gales recorded on an average of 48 days a year.

[2] The 2009 Dusky Sound earthquake[3] pushed Puysegur Point closer to Australia by 30 centimetres (12 in).

[8] The name Otago Retreat originates from the passage of the schooner Otago that found shelter in this narrow passage during a voyage accompanying the survey ship HMS Acheron on a survey of the South Island around 1850–51.