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Otago gold rush, the Glossary

️Wed Jan 04 2012

The Otago gold rush (often called the Central Otago gold rush) was a gold rush that occurred during the 1860s in Central Otago, New Zealand.^[1]

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1851 in New Zealand
1860s in Dunedin
1861 in New Zealand
Central Otago District
Clutha River
Economy of Dunedin
History of Otago
Immigration to New Zealand
New Zealand gold rushes
The Maniototo

Aorere River

The Aorere River is in the Tasman District of the South Island of New Zealand that flows from headwaters in the alpine regions of the Kahurangi National Park.

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Arrowtown

Arrowtown is a historic gold mining town in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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The Arrowtown Chinese Settlement is a heritage listed, historic village located in Arrowtown, New Zealand and set up by Chinese people during the Otago gold rush of the 1860s. Otago gold rush and Arrowtown Chinese Settlement are history of Otago and Immigration to New Zealand.

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Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.

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Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Ōkārito

Ōkārito is a small coastal settlement on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, southwest of Hokitika, and from.

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Blizzard and flood of 1863

The blizzard and flood of 1863 was a series of consecutive natural disasters in Central Otago in New Zealand's South Island. Otago gold rush and blizzard and flood of 1863 are history of Otago.

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Bone

A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the skeleton in most vertebrate animals.

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Bruce Bay

Bruce Bay is a bay and settlement in South Westland, New Zealand on the Tasman Sea.

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Bullendale

Bullendale is an abandoned mining settlement in Otago, New Zealand. Otago gold rush and Bullendale are history of Otago.

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Bully Hayes

William Henry "Bully" Hayes (1827 or 1829 – 31 March 1877) was a notorious American ship's captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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California gold rush

The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California.

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Cape Colville

Cape Colville is the northernmost point of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand's North Island.

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Celadon

Celadon is a term for pottery denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware or "green ware" (the term specialists now tend to use), and a type of transparent glaze, often with small cracks, that was first used on greenware, but later used on other porcelains.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Central Otago

Central Otago is an area located in the inland part of the Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Charleston, New Zealand

Charleston is a village in the South Island of New Zealand located 30 km south of Westport.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Cobb & Co. (New Zealand)

Cobb & Co is the name of a company that operated a fleet of stagecoaches in Australia in the late 19th century.

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Collingwood, New Zealand

Collingwood is a town in the north-west corner of the South Island of New Zealand along Golden Bay / Mohua.

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Coromandel Peninsula

The Coromandel Peninsula (Te Tara-o-te-Ika-a-Māui) on the North Island of New Zealand extends north from the western end of the Bay of Plenty, forming a natural barrier protecting the Hauraki Gulf and the Firth of Thames in the west from the Pacific Ocean to the east.

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Coromandel, New Zealand

Coromandel, (Kapanga) also called Coromandel Town to distinguish it from the wider district, is a town on the Coromandel Harbour, on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula, which is in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Cromwell, New Zealand

Cromwell (Māori: Tīrau) is a town in Central Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. Otago gold rush and Cromwell, New Zealand are Clutha River.

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Diggers, Hatters & Whores

Diggers, Hatters & Whores is a 2008 history book about gold rushes in New Zealand, written by Stevan Eldred-Grigg.

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Dunedin

Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region.

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Dunedin Chinese Garden

Dunedin Chinese Garden is a Chinese garden located in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Eichardt's Hotel

Eichardt‘s Private Hotel is located on the corner of Marine Parade and Ballarat Street, Queenstown, New Zealand, on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.

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Evidence

Evidence for a proposition is what supports the proposition.

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Gabriel Read

Thomas Gabriel Read (21 August 182531 October 1894) was a gold prospector and farmer.

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Gabriel's Gully

Gabriel's Gully is a locality in Otago, New Zealand, three kilometres from Lawrence township and close to the Tuapeka River. Otago gold rush and Gabriel's Gully are history of Otago.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Gold Field Towns (New Zealand electorate)

The Gold Field Towns electorate was a 19th-century parliamentary electorate in the Otago region of New Zealand.

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Gold Fields (New Zealand electorate)

The Gold Fields District electorate was a 19th-century parliamentary electorate in the Otago region, New Zealand.

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Gold rush

A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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Grey River (New Zealand)

The Grey River / Māwheranui is located in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Harriet Heron

Harriet Ann Heron (née Buttress, ca. 1836 – 28 October 1933) was an early settler and business owner in Central Otago, New Zealand, and one of the few women who lived in gold mining camps during the Otago gold rush.

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Heritage New Zealand

Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga (initially the National Historic Places Trust and then, from 1963 to 2014, the New Zealand Historic Places Trust) (in Pouhere Taonga) is a Crown entity with a membership of around 20,000 people that advocates for the protection of ancestral sites and heritage buildings in New Zealand.

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History of the Dunedin urban area

The villages and then city that lay at the head of Otago Harbor never existed in isolation, but have always been a staging ground between inland Otago and the wider world.

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Hydraulic fill

Hydraulic fill is a means of selectively emplacing soil or other materials using a stream of water.

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James Fagan (musician)

James Fagan (born 1972) is an Australian-born folk musician.

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James Keelaghan

James Keelaghan (born October 28, 1959) is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter.

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Kawarau Gorge

The Kawarau Gorge is a major river gorge created by the Kawarau River in Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Laborer

A laborer (or labourer) is a skilled trade, a person who works in manual labor types, especially in the construction and factory industries.

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Lawrence, New Zealand

Lawrence is a small town in Otago, in New Zealand's South Island.

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Lindis Pass

Lindis Pass (Ōmakō) (elevation 971 m) is located in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Literature

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.

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Macraes

Macraes, formerly known as Macraes Flat, and known in Māori as Oti, on Kāti Huirapa Runaka ki Puketeraki website, viewed 2012-01-04 is a town in the Waitaki District in Otago, New Zealand.

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Macraes Mine

Macraes Mine in East Otago is New Zealand's largest gold mine, and consists of a large scale opencast mine opened in 1990, and a newer underground mine, opened in 2008.

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Management

Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administration respectively.

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Marlborough District

Marlborough District or the Marlborough Region (or Tauihu), commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, located on the northeast of the South Island.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Martin Curtis

Martin Curtis is a leading New Zealand folksinger and songwriter.

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Mataura River

The Mataura River is in the Southland Region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Māori people

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).

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Mercury Bay

Mercury Bay is a large V-shaped bay on the eastern coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand.

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Michael King (historian)

Michael King (15 December 1945 – 30 March 2004) was a New Zealand historian, author, and biographer.

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Miner

A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining.

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Mining in New Zealand

Mining in New Zealand began when the Māori quarried rock such as argillite in times prior to European colonisation.

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Mother

A mother is the female parent of a child.

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Nancy Kerr

Nancy Kerr (born 1975) is an English folk musician and songwriter, specialising in the fiddle and singing.

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Naseby, New Zealand

Naseby is a small town, formerly a borough, in the Maniototo area of Central Otago, New Zealand. Otago gold rush and Naseby, New Zealand are Central Otago District and the Maniototo.

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Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson (Whakatū) is a New Zealand city and unitary authority on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay at the top of the South Island.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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New Zealand head tax

New Zealand imposed a poll tax on Chinese immigrants during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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New Zealand Mint

New Zealand Mint (Te Kamupene Whakanao o Aotearoa) is a privately owned company in Auckland, New Zealand.

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New Zealand Wars

The New Zealand Wars (Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa) took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other.

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Nic Jones

Nic Jones (born Nicolas Paul Jones; 9 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Nokomai River

The Nokomai River (or Rokomai River) is a river in New Zealand, officially named on 1 January 1931.

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Oamaru

Oamaru (Te Oha-a-Maru) is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District.

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth.

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OceanaGold

OceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold) is a gold mining and exploration company based in Vancouver, Canada and Brisbane, Australia. OceanaGold operates the Haile Gold Mine in the United States, the Didipio Mine in the Philippines, and the Macraes and Waihi mines in New Zealand.

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Orepuki

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.

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Otago Province

The Otago Province was a province of New Zealand until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Otago gold rush and Otago Province are history of Otago.

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Otago Witness

The Otago Witness was a prominent illustrated weekly newspaper in the early years of the European settlement of New Zealand, produced in Dunedin, the provincial capital of Otago.

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Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible.

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Palmerston, New Zealand

Palmerston is a town in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Paul Metsers

Paul Metsers (born 27 November 1945) is a Dutch-born New Zealand-British folk songwriter and solo performer who toured the UK folk clubs extensively in the 1980s, before effectively retiring in 1989.

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Phil Garland

Philip Humphrey Garland (9 February 1942 – 15 March 2017) was a New Zealand folk musician.

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Photograph

A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip.

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Placer mining

Placer mining is the mining of stream bed deposits for minerals.

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Pounamu

Pounamu is a term for several types of hard and durable stone found in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Prospecting

Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Quartz

Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).

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Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown (Tāhuna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.

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Reefton

Reefton is a small town in the West Coast region of New Zealand, some 80 km northeast of Greymouth, in the Inangahua River valley.

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Roundhill Ski Area

Roundhill Ski Area is a family owned and run ski area in Canterbury, New Zealand, in the Two Thumb Range near the town of Lake Tekapo, 1.5 hours from Timaru and 4 hours from both Christchurch & Queenstown.

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Saint Bathans

St Bathans, formerly named Dunstan Creek, is a former gold and coal mining town in Central Otago, New Zealand.

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Shotover River

The Shotover River (Kimiākau) is located in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otago_gold_rush

Also known as Archaeological Evidence of Gender in Central Otago Mining Communities, Central Otago Gold Rush, Central Otago Goldrush, Dunstan goldfields, Otago Goldrush.

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Otago gold rush, the Glossary

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See also

1851 in New Zealand

1860s in Dunedin

1861 in New Zealand

Central Otago District

Clutha River

Economy of Dunedin

History of Otago

Immigration to New Zealand

New Zealand gold rushes

The Maniototo

References