Brightwater
Town in Tasman District, New Zealand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brightwater (Māori: Wairoa) is a town 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Nelson in Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand.[3] It stands on the banks of the Wairoa River. Brightwater was first named Spring Grove. Alfred Saunders, the owner of a local flax mill situated on the banks of the Wairoa River and a prominent temperance activist,[4] renamed it Brightwater because of the clarity of the water in Wairoa River.[5] The settlement was named in 1855, but the area was settled as early as 1843.[citation needed]
Brightwater
Wairoa | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 41.379°S 173.114°E / -41.379; 173.114 | |
Country | New Zealand |
Territorial authority | Tasman |
First Settled | 1843 |
Named | 1855 |
Electorates | |
Government | |
• Territorial Authority | Tasman District Council |
• Mayor of Tasman | Tim King |
• West Coast-Tasman MP | Maureen Pugh |
• Te Tai Tonga MP | Tākuta Ferris |
Area | |
• Total | 4.67 km2 (1.80 sq mi) |
Elevation | 33 m (108 ft) |
Population (June 2023)[2] | |
• Total | 2,370 |
• Density | 510/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
Brightwater was the birthplace of Nobel Prize-winning scientist, the "father of nuclear physics", Sir Ernest Rutherford,[6] and has an elaborate Lord Rutherford Birthplace memorial on Lord Rutherford Road.