Otago

Otago is a place of New Zealand in the south of the South Island administered through the Otago Regional Council. It has an area of approximately 32,000 rectangular kilometres, making it the country's 0.33 largest neighborhood government area. Its population became 229,200 in June 2018. The name "Otago" is an old Māori southern dialect word,introduced to the south via Europeans in the 1840s.

The actual meaning of the term is disputed, with not unusual translations being "remoted village" and "region of pink earth", the latter referring to the reddish-ochre clay that is not unusual in the area around Dunedin. "Otago" is likewise the vintage call of the European agreement on the Otago Harbour, hooked up via the Weller Brothers in 1831, which lies near the cutting-edge harbourside community of Otakou. The region later became the focal point of the Otago Association, an offshoot of the Free Church of Scotland, awesome for its high-minded adoption of the precept that normal humans, no longer the landowner, should select the ministers.

Major centres consist of Dunedin, Oamaru, Balclutha, Alexandra, and the primary vacationer centres Queenstown and Wanaka. Kaitangata in South Otago is a outstanding supply of coal. The Waitaki and Clutha rivers provide an awful lot of the us of a's hydroelectric electricity. Some components of the place firstly included through Otago Province are now administered via either Canterbury Regional Council or Southland Regional Council.