Gorge Road

Gorge Road is located in New Zealand
Gorge Road
Gorge Road

Gorge Road is a locality in the Southland region of New Zealand's South Island.[1] It is on the Southern Scenic Route and is situated on the western bank of the Mataura River.[2] Nearby settlements include Ashers to the west, and across the Mataura, Pine Bush and Titiroa to the east.

The name Gorge Road derives from the former name, Gorge Run, an early landholding in the same location.[3][4]

Gorge Road and Districts Community Development Area (an initiative of the Southland District Council to give local people a say in what is happening in their area) has almost 400 householders in the Southland District Council, and is the largest Community Development Area of the 16 in the Southland District Council.

  1. ^ "Place name detail: Gorge Road". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board. Retrieved 16 November 2007.
  2. ^ Latitude.to. "GPS coordinates of Gorge Road, New Zealand. Latitude: -46.4833 Longitude: 168.7000". Latitude.to, maps, geolocated articles, latitude longitude coordinate conversion. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
  3. ^ AA concise dictionary of New Zealand place names. Auckland, N.Z.: Moa Beckett. 1994. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-86958-100-8.
  4. ^ "Gorge Road". NZHistory. Retrieved 2024-05-23.