Crushington, New Zealand
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Crushington is a town beside the Inangahua River in the West Coast region of New Zealand.
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The settlement is located three kilometres inland from Reefton, on the Lewis Pass road (State Highway 7) between the West Coast and north Canterbury.
The town was originally settled for quartz-mining at the Globe Mine, and was named for the pervasive sound of quartz being crushed by twenty stamps driven by a turbine water wheel.[1]
Reed quotes G.G.M. Mitchell: "Hour after hour, day after day, month after month for several years this crushing-battery kept pounding away at its job. Then one day the mine closed down and the battery stopped working at midnight. So inured had the children of Crushington become to the tremendous noise made by the battery that local history records that there was no sleep for any child of Crushington, so strange was the effect of the unusual silence on them."[1]
Crushington was the birthplace of athlete John Edward "Jack" Lovelock, who went on to win a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the 1500 m.
References
- ^ a b Reed, A. W. (1979). The Reed dictionary of New Zealand place names (2002 ed.). Auckland [N.Z.]: Reed. ISBN 0-7900-0761-4. OCLC 49290681.
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Seddon Ward | |
Westport Ward |
- Allen River
- Awakari River
- Awarau River
- Ballroom Overhang
- Beautiful River
- Blackwater River (Buller River tributary)
- Blackwater River (Little Grey River tributary)
- Buller Gorge
- Buller River
- Bullock Creek
- Denniston Plateau
- Fox River
- Glasgow Range
- Kahurangi Point
- Karamea Bight
- Lake Christabel
- Lewis Pass
- Metro Cave / Te Ananui Cave
- Mount Augustus
- Mount Haast
- Ngākawau River
- Ōpārara Basin
- Ōpārara Basin Arches
- Ōtūmahana Estuary
- Papahaua Range
- Paparoa Range
- Perpendicular Point
- Pororari River
- Scotts Beach
- Waitakere / Nile River
- Wharepapa / Arthur Range
- Big Rimu Walk
- Charming Creek Tramway
- Conns Creek Branch
- Fenian Track
- Granity Community Library
- Heaphy Track
- Inland Pack Track
- Kahurangi Marine Reserve
- Kahurangi National Park
- Karamea Centennial Museum
- Koranui Incline
- Mokihinui Hydro
- Ngakawau Hydro Project
- Old Ghost Road
- Pancake Rocks and Blowholes
- Paparoa National Park
- Punakaiki Marine Reserve
- Reefton Hospital
- Rockies Incline
- Seddonville Branch
- Stillwater–Ngākawau Line
- Stockton Mine
- Truman Track
- Victoria Forest Park
- Wangapeka Track
- Westport Airport
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