New Zealand - Havelock
- Havelock Town Hall & Post Office
- January 1980
- T. Hann Photo
Havelock
- A small town in the Marlborough region
- It sits at the head of Pelorus Sound, one of the Marlborough Sounds, and at the mouth of the Pelorus and Kaituna Rivers.
- The 2013 census recorded its population as 486, a decrease of 3 since 2006.
- Havelock serves as the centre for much of the New Zealand green-lipped mussel industry, and is called the greenshell mussel capital of the world. It also functions as the base for a mail boat servicing the remote communities in the Marlborough Sounds, as well as for many fishing and recreational boats.
- The name "Havelock" commemorates Sir Henry Havelock (1795-1857), known from the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- The streets were laid out in 1858, with Lucknow Street as the main thoroughfare.
- The gold rush to the Wakamarina Valley in 1864 boosted the growth of the township, with sawmilling becoming the main activity until the 1910s, later joined by dairying.
- The valleys around Havelock contain many pine plantations.
- Across the Kaituna River estuary, the Cullen Point Scenic Reserve and the Mahakipawa Hill Scenic Reserve offer a coastal walking-track to a lookout at Cullen Point.
(Reference: Wikipedia)
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