Mataura

Mataura (pronounced: ma-TAU-ra) is a rural service town on the Mataura River, 13 km south of Gore, in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.

Get in
State Highway 1 passes through Mataura.
 * From Gore, it is a 13 kilometre drive south.
 * From Invercargill, it is a 53 kilometres north.

Do

 * Fishing for brown trout in the Mataura River

Work
Mataura has a meat processing plant.

Go next

 * Gore
 * Invercargill
 * The Catlins – forest, beaches and wildlife