Longbush is a community in the
Southland region of New Zealand's
South Island
The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
. It is located in a rural area outside the city of
Invercargill on the banks of the
Waihopai River. Just to the northeast is the larger town of
Woodlands.There are two possible origins of the name Longbush, with one being that it is simply named after the shape of the bush. The second, however, is that it was named by the first travellers between Invercargill and Dunedin "and used the term as an indication of the length and weariness of the journey."
The community is located on
State Highway 1 and the
Main South Line railway between
Kennington
Kennington is a district in south London, England. It is mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, running along the boundary with the London Borough of Southwark, a boundary which can be discerned from the early medieval period between the ...
and
Dacre Dacre may refer to:
Places
*Dacre, Cumbria, England
**Dacre Castle
*Dacre, North Yorkshire, England
*Dacre, New Zealand, in the Southland Region
* Dacre, Ontario, Canada
People
*Baron Dacre, an English hereditary title
*Charlotte Dacre (1782–184 ...
. Also nearby is the village of
Rakahouka. Passenger trains have not operated on the railway through Longbush since the cancellation of the
Southerner on 10 February 2002, though this express service did not actually stop in Longbush either.
References
Populated places in Southland, New Zealand
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