Bulwer is a small locality in Waihinau Bay in the outer

Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere Pelorus Sound (; officially Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere) is the largest of the sounds which make up the Marlborough Sounds at the north of the South Island, New Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds is a system of drowned river valleys, which were f ...

, New Zealand. It can be reached by 77 km of winding, mostly unsealed, road from Rai Valley. A weekly

mail boat Mail boats or postal boats are a boat or ship used for the delivery of mail, and sometimes transportation of goods, people and vehicles, in communities where bodies of water commonly separate settlements, towns or cities, often where bridges ar ...

service delivers mail and also offers passenger services. The area surrounding Bulwer features a mixture of native bush, farm land and

pine A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. ''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...

plantations.

Naming

"Bulwer" and the associated name "Lytton Water" honour either

Edward Bulwer-Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (; 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secr ...

(1803–1873) or his son Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891).

References

{{Marlborough Region, state=collapsed Populated places in the Marlborough District Populated places in the Marlborough Sounds