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Sports venues in the Southland Region (2 C) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in the Southland Region" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Orepuki in Southland, New Zealand is a small country township on the coast of Te Waewae Bay some 20 minutes from Riverton, 15 minutes from Tuatapere and 50 minutes from Invercargill that sits at the foot of the Longwood Range. Once a thriving gold mining settlement of 3000 people, today Orepuki is something of a ghost town with an assortment of ...
Manapouri is a small town in Southland / Fiordland, in the southwest corner of the South Island, in New Zealand. The township is the westernmost municipality in New Zealand. [3] Located at the edge of the Fiordland National Park, on the eastern shore of Lake Manapouri, close to its outflow into the Waiau River, tourist boat services are based ...
hotel in Winton, New Zealand Winton: 232–234 Great North Road, Winton 2011-12-15 NZHPT Category II listing Jamieson's Restaurant restaurant in New Zealand Winton: 206–210 Great North Road, Winton 2012-06-28 NZHPT Category II listing Howell's Cottage: New Zealand heritage building Riverton / Aparima: 22 Napier Street, Riverton 1992-02-20
The Southland Museum and Art Gallery Niho o te Taniwha is located in Gala Street, Invercargill, New Zealand. It is Southland's largest cultural and heritage institution, and contains a wide variety of the region's art, history and natural history collections. It is notable for its 1990 pyramid-shaped building, constructed over the original 1942 ...
Colac Bay / Ōraka is a small township situated on the bay of the same name facing Foveaux Strait, and located on the Southern Scenic Route, 10 minutes from Riverton, New Zealand. Surrounding areas include Longwood, Tihaka, Waipango , Round Hill, Wakapatu, Ruahine, Pahia and Orepuki .
However the major factor in Invercargill's regrowth is the dairy industrial boom of the 2000s (decade) due to an increased demand for New Zealand milk, cheese and butter. New dairy factories have opened around the Southland Region, as well as more efficient meat processing works and research and development facilities. [37]
Around 1880 work started on draining what had been a wetland area and, in 1883, a road was built linking Fortrose and Waikawa, thus facilitating government sales of land to settlers. [16] However, the road was still very muddy in 1885. [17] A post office opened in 1887 [18] and a dairy factory on 29 November 1897, [19] which closed in 1945. [20]