The Waimea Plains is an area of pastoral land extending from
Gore toward
Lumsden.
The land is chiefly used for
sheep
Sheep (: sheep) or domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock. Although the term ''sheep'' can apply to other species in the genus '' Ovis'', in everyday usage it almost always refers to d ...
and
deer
A deer (: deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family). Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) ...
farming, and is part of the
Southland Plains.
See also
*
Waimea Plains Railway
References
Landforms of the Southland Region
Plains of New Zealand
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