Bulwer, New Zealand

Bulwer
Bulwer
Coordinates: 40°56′30″S 173°56′59″E / 40.94167°S 173.94972°E / -40.94167; 173.94972Coordinates: 40°56′30″S 173°56′59″E / 40.94167°S 173.94972°E / -40.94167; 173.94972
Country New Zealand
Region Marlborough

Bulwer is a small locality in Waihinau Bay in the outer Pelorus Sound, New Zealand. It can be reached by 77 km of winding, mostly unsealed, road from Rai Valley.[1][2] A weekly mail-boat service delivers mail and also offers passenger services.

The area surrounding Bulwer features a mixture of native bush, farm land and pine plantations.

Naming

"Bulwer" and the associated name "Lytton Water"[3] honour either Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) or his son Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-1891).[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Peter Dowling (editor) (2004). Reed New Zealand Atlas. Reed Books. pp. map 59. ISBN 0-7900-0952-8.
  2. ↑ Roger Smith, GeographX (2005). The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand. Robbie Burton. pp. map 131. ISBN 1-877333-20-4.
  3. ↑ United States Hydrographic Office, eds. (1929). New Zealand Pilot: Including Kermadec Islands, Chatham Islands, and the Off-lying Islands Southeastward and Southward of New Zealand. Hydrographic Office publications (2 ed.). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 364. Retrieved 2015-12-27. Lytton Water lies at the confluence of Popoure and Pinohia Reaches with Opouri Bay.
  4. ↑ Reed, Alexander Wyclif (2002) [1975]. Peter Dowling, ed. The Reed dictionary of New Zealand place names. Max Cryer (2002 ed.). Auckland: Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0761-4. Bulwer [...] was surveyed and named, together with Lytton Water as the bay. Both names honoured the author Edward Bulwer-Lytton, or possibly his father[sic], Lord Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880.
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