Reefton

West Coast Region · New Zealand

Reefton, New Zealand
Photo: Stewart Nimmo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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A historic gold and quartz mining town on the Inangahua River, the first place in the Southern Hemisphere with a public electricity supply. Heritage buildings and old battery sites recall its 1870s boom.

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