Waikouaiti
Sign in to saveWaikouaiti is a small town in East Otago, New Zealand, within the city limits of Dunedin. The town is close to the coast and the mouth of the Waikouaiti River.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in OTA, across 3 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Localities in the Dunedin City territory, Use New Zealand English from December 2021 and Waikouaiti.
Its subject is documented across 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- locality
- Country
- New Zealand
- Population
- 1250
- Image
- NZ State Highway 1 - Waikouaiti Jan 2008.jpg
- Dialing code
- 03
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- Commons category
- Waikouaiti
- postal code
- 9510
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- 2021 lead poisoning scare
- Place names
- Demographics
- Transport
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Waikouaiti is a small town in East Otago, New Zealand, within the city limits of Dunedin. The town is close to the coast and the mouth of the Waikouaiti River.
Today, Waikouaiti is a retail trade and servicing centre for the surrounding district, which has sheep farming as the principal primary activity. A major egg producer, Zeagold Foods, a branch of Mainland Poultry LTD has a 500,000-hen factory farming operation here and is in the process of expanding over the next year to meet demand for egg products. Hawksbury, southwest of Waikouaiti, has a cheese factory and shop, a swimming pool and housing developed from the old mental health institution, Cherry Farm. Karitane, to the southeast has a small fishing port.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waikouaiti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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