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Arrowtown

Boom town, New Zealand.

About Arrowtown

Locality in Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, New Zealand.1

Where next

Mines

Led toGabriel's GullyGabriels Gully, where Read found gold in 1861, is the next stop in Otago.2

Events

Led toOtago gold rushArrowtown sits in Otago, where Gabriel Read's find began a rush in 1861.3

Places

ExamplesWaihiAnother boom town in New Zealand: Arrowtown.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q703016 (Arrowtown)
  2. Gabriel's Gully NZ Department of Conservation
  3. History of Gabriels Gully NZ Department of Conservation
  4. Wikidata item Q498833 (Waihi)

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: The Big Hole by Rudolph Botha, CC BY-SA 3.0. Pictures: Gold prospectors constructing a long box with a filter for panning gold. Process print after H.M. Paget, 1899., Henry Marriott Paget (Public Domain Mark 1.0); Mijnramp Bois du Caizier, Marcinelle, België. Schacht, Rossem, Wim van / Anefo / Europeana (Public Domain Mark 1.0).