Bortons

Bortons is a small settlement on the southern bank of the Waitaki River in New Zealand's South Island. It is located on SH 83, 7 km east of Duntroon.[1]

The settlement is named after surveyor and civil engineer John Borton, a pioneer of the district, who acquired a nearby run in 1854.[2]

Bortons Pond, the headwaters of the lower Waitaki irrigation scheme, is located at Black Point, to the east of Bortons.[3] It irrigates some 20,000 hectares (49,000 acres) of farmland across the South Canterbury and North Otago regions.[4]

Bortons lends its name to the Bortonian stage, one of the divisions of the New Zealand geologic time scale.

  1. ^ Dowling, P. (ed.) (2004). ’’Reed New Zealand atlas’’. Auckland: Reed Publishing. Map 93. ISBN 0 7900 0952 8
  2. ^ Reed, A.W. (1975). Place names of New Zealand. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed. p. 47.
  3. ^ "Bortons Pond," Lower Waitaki Irrigation Company. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  4. ^ "History," Lower Waitaki Irrigation Company. Retrieved 9 July 2022.