Oteramika

Living in Oteramika

Oteramika is a Southland locality on the flat plain west of Invercargill, where the farming country extends toward the coast and the Waiau River catchment's edge. The Māori name applies to the locality with the South Island's characteristic retention of waterway and landscape names in the places that the European farming era renamed around them but not over them.

The farming around Oteramika is the western Southland plain character: dairy and sheep on the flat, productive country that the region's deep soils and consistent rainfall support. The western Southland plain extends toward the coast and the Riverton and Orepuki areas, with the farming country maintaining the productive character of a district that has been operating at agricultural scale since the 1860s.

The permanent population is the farming families on the surrounding properties, with Invercargill providing the full range of services within the easy driving distances that the flat Southland roads allow. The city's schools and services are the established resource for the locality's families.

Oteramika is western Southland's working plain, farming the flat country between Invercargill and the coast with the productivity that the Southland district's agricultural reputation is built on.

Schools & Enrolment Zones in Oteramika

Schools in zone for Oteramika

Children living in Oteramika have a guaranteed right to enrol at these schools, based on Ministry of Education home zones.

• St Patrick's School (Invercargill)

  Contributing · roll 272 · decile 3

• Verdon College

  Secondary (Year 7-15) · roll 716 · decile 6

• Southland Adventist Christian School

  Full Primary · roll 123 · decile 4

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