Rotowaro

37°35′11″S 175°5′35″E / 37.58639°S 175.09306°E / -37.58639; 175.09306

The newly built village in 1920, now replaced by an opencast mine
Rotowaro

Rotowaro was once a small coal mining township approximately 10 km west of Huntly in the Waikato region of New Zealand. The town was built especially for miners houses, but was entirely removed in the 1980s to make way for a large opencast mine.[1]

The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "lake of glowing embers" for Rotowaro.[2]

  1. ^ "Rotowaro Mine". Solid Energy. Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  2. ^ "1000 Māori place names". New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 6 August 2019.