Blenheim

Blenheim is the maximum populous city within the place of Marlborough, inside the north east of the South Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of 31,six hundred. The surrounding area is nicely referred to as the centre of New Zealand's wine enterprise. It enjoys certainly one of New Zealand's sunniest climates, with warm, surprisingly dry summers and cool, crisp winters. Blenheim is named after the Battle of Blenheim, in which troops led by way of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough defeated a mixed French and Bavarian pressure. The sheltered coastal bays of Marlborough supported a small Maori populace possibly as early as the 12th century. Archaeological evidence dates Polynesian human remains exposed at Wairau Bar to the 13th century.

The wealthy sea and chicken lifestyles of the location could effortlessly have supported such small groups. As the Maori populace of the vicinity extended, they developed the land to maintain the developing populace. In the early 1700s canals and waterways have been dug among the natural river publications, bearing in mind the first sorts of farming in the location including that of fish and local water hen. A general of about 18 km of channels are known to had been excavated earlier than the arrival of European settlers. Māori inside the Marlborough Region additionally cultivated plants, which include kumara.