Story: Southland places
Riverton/Aparima, ‘the oldest town in the South Island’, traces its origins to a whaling station that thrived for at least a decade from the late 1830s.
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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Photograph by Janine Faulknor
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