Gore
Gore is a town of 8,200 people in the Southland region of New Zealand that is known as the world's capital of brown trout fishing, and New Zealand's capital of country music. It is on State Highway 1 about an hour's drive from Invercargill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,250 residents
- Description: town in New Zealand’s Southland region
- Also known as: “Gore, New Zealand” and “Maruawai”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Peter’s College.
St Peter’s College
School
St Peters College is an integrated state secondary school in Gore, Southland, New Zealand. It was founded in 1969 as a private co-ed school and was the first Catholic co-educational boarding school established in New Zealand.
Gore
- Category: locality
- Location: Gore District, Southland, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-46.0984° or 46° 5′ 54″ southLongitude
168.9448° or 168° 56′ 41″ eastPopulation
8,250Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)United Nations Location Code
NZ GOROpen location code
4V5CWW2V+JWOpenStreetMap ID
node 976301400OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Gore” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Gore”
- Belarusian: “Гор (Новая Зеландыя)”
- Belarusian: “Гор”
- Catalan: “Gore”
- Cebuano: “Gore”
- Dutch: “Gore”
- French: “Gore”
- German: “Gore”
- Hebrew: “גור, ניו זילנד”
- Italian: “Distretto di Gore”
- Italian: “Gore”
- Japanese: “ゴア (ニュージーランド)”
- Japanese: “ゴア”
- Korean: “고어”
- Malay: “Gore, New Zealand”
- Maori: “Maruawai”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gore på New Zealand”
- Polish: “Gore”
- Russian: “Гор”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gore, Sealainn Nuadh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gore”
- Slovenian: “Gore, Nova Zelandija”
- Spanish: “Gore”
- Swedish: “Gore”
- Turkish: “Gore”
- Urdu: “گور، نیوزی لینڈ”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع گور”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gore”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.