They lie to the south of Andersons Bay and Musselburgh, close to Dunedin's southern coastline (Ocean Beach).

Tainui lies to the north, in the area of residential housing which lies in the southeastern corner of "The Flat" (southern Dunedin's wide coastal plain) between Victoria and Tahuna Roads in the south and Musselburgh Rise in the north.

Notable features of Tainui include Culling Park, a sports ground which is the home of Dunedin Technical football club.

Chisholm Park is a championship-standard links course featuring one of New Zealand's finest holes, Lawyers Head.

This hole dog-legs around craggy cliffs with the ocean pounding at their feet, and as such is both visually impressive and technically difficult.

The grounds were inaugurated in a 20-acre (8.1 ha) here in 1883, and the park's only union test match was played in 1905, with the All Blacks beating Australia 14–3.

This is located at the southeastern end of Tahuna, and is bounded to the west and south by Chisholm Park Golf Links.

This area of Tahuna was formerly known as Ocean View, a name which is still occasionally encountered, though this name has fallen out of use due to confusion with the settlement of the same name which lies 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the southwest near Brighton.