Bortons Explained

Bortons is a small settlement on the southern bank of the Waitaki River in New Zealand's South Island. It is located on SH 83, 7 km east of Duntroon.^[1]

The settlement is named after surveyor and civil engineer John Borton, a pioneer of the district, who acquired a nearby run in 1854.^[2]

Bortons Pond, the headwaters of the lower Waitaki irrigation scheme, is located at Black Point, to the east of Bortons.^[3] It irrigates some 20000ha of farmland across the South Canterbury and North Otago regions.^[4]

Bortons lends its name to the Bortonian stage, one of the divisions of the New Zealand geologic time scale.

References

-44.8806°N 170.7639°W

Notes and References

1. Dowling, P. (ed.) (2004). ’’Reed New Zealand atlas’’. Auckland: Reed Publishing. Map 93.
2. [Alexander Wyclif Reed|Reed, A.W.]
3. "Bortons Pond," Lower Waitaki Irrigation Company. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
4. "History," Lower Waitaki Irrigation Company. Retrieved 9 July 2022.