Wanaka

Wanaka is a famous ski and summer season lodge town inside the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. At the southern quit of Lake Wanaka, it is on the begin of the Clutha River and is the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park. Wanaka is on the whole a lodge metropolis with each summer and winter seasons. Its economy is based on the many out of doors opportunities this gives. Historically, Maori visited the Wanaka vicinity to hunt and fish in summer, or on their way to seek pounamu at the West Coast. Ngai Tahu abandoned their seasonal camps after a raid by a North Island struggle birthday party in 1836. The current city changed into based all through the gold rush of the nineteenth century.

Along with the rest of the Queenstown-Lakes District, Wanaka is growing swiftly, with the populace increasing through 50% between 2005 and 2015. Wanaka become visited annually with the aid of Ngai Tahu who sought greenstone in the mountains above the Haast River and hunted eels and birds over summer season, returning to the east coast by using descending the Clutha River / Mata-Au in reed boats called mokihi. Ngai Tahu use of the land changed into ended with the aid of assaults by way of North Island tribes.