Reefton
Reefton is a small inland town beside the Inangahua River in the West Coast region of New Zealand. With a population of 1,000, it is the 4th biggest town on the West Coast.
- Type: Town with 927 residents
- Description: town in Buller District, New Zealand
- Also known as: “雷夫頓” and “雷夫顿”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Reefton School of Mines and Reefton Courthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blacks Point and Crushington.
Blacks Point
Hamlet
Blacks Point is a locality near Reefton on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
Crushington
Locality
Crushington is a town beside the Inangahua River in the West Coast region of New Zealand. Crushington is situated 3½ km southeast of Reefton.
Reefton
- Category: locality
- Location: Buller District, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-42.1159° or 42° 6′ 57″ south
Longitude
171.8635° or 171° 51′ 48″ east
Population
927
Elevation
199 metres (653 feet)
Named after
gold-bearing quartz reefs
Open location code
4V9HVVM7+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Reefton” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Reefton”
- Aragonese: “Reefton”
- Arpitan: “Reefton”
- Asturian: “Reefton”
- Bambara: “Reefton”
- Basque: “Reefton”
- Bavarian: “Reefton”
- Breton: “Reefton”
- Cajun French: “Reefton”
- Catalan: “Reefton”
- Cebuano: “Reefton”
- Chinese: “里夫頓”
- Chinese: “里夫顿”
- Corsican: “Reefton”
- Croatian: “Reefton”
- Czech: “Reefton”
- Danish: “Reefton”
- Dutch: “Reefton”
- Esperanto: “Reefton”
- Estonian: “Reefton”
- Finnish: “Reefton”
- French: “Reefton”
- Friulian: “Reefton”
- Galician: “Reefton”
- German: “Reefton”
- Hungarian: “Reefton”
- Ido: “Reefton”
- Indonesian: “Reefton”
- Interlingua: “Reefton”
- Interlingue: “Reefton”
- Irish: “Reefton”
- Italian: “Reefton”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Reefton”
- Jèrriais: “Reefton”
- Kabyle: “Reefton”
- Kongo: “Reefton”
- Latvian: “Reefton”
- Ligurian: “Reefton”
- Limburgan: “Reefton”
- Lithuanian: “Reefton”
- Low German: “Reefton”
- Luxembourgish: “Reefton”
- Mainfränkisch: “Reefton”
- Malagasy: “Reefton”
- Malay: “Reefton”
- Maori: “Rīwhitana”
- Minangkabau: “Reefton”
- Neapolitan: “Reefton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Reefton”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Reefton”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Reefton”
- Papiamento: “Reefton”
- Picard: “Reefton”
- Piemontese: “Reefton”
- Polish: “Reefton”
- Portuguese: “Reefton”
- Prussian: “Reefton”
- Romagnol: “Reefton”
- Romanian: “Reefton”
- Romansh: “Reefton”
- Sardinian: “Reefton”
- Scots: “Reefton”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Reefton”
- Serbian: “Reefton”
- Sicilian: “Reefton”
- Slovak: “Reefton”
- Spanish: “Reefton”
- Swahili: “Reefton”
- Swedish: “Reefton”
- Swiss German: “Reefton”
- Turkish: “Reefton”
- Urdu: “ریفٹن”
- Venetian: “Reefton”
- Vietnamese: “Reefton”
- Vlaams: “Reefton”
- Volapük: “Reefton”
- Walloon: “Reefton”
- Welsh: “Reefton”
- Wolof: “Reefton”
- Zulu: “Reefton”
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