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Kōrero: Otago region

New Edinburgh map

The New Edinburgh purchase – later called Otago – is shown in sketch form in this 1844 map. It stretched from the Otago Harbour heads to the south bank of the ‘Matou or Molineux River’ – today known as the Clutha. Cultivable land is shaded pink, and reserves laid out for the Māori sellers are also shown.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – The Otago settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/22634/new-edinburgh-map (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.