New Zealand - Twizel - Twizel High School - Form 7 - 1980 Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. Twizel Area School - Established in 1986 following the merger of Twizel Primary School and Twizel High School Twizel - Twizel is the largest town in the Mackenzie District - The town was founded in 1968 to house construction workers on the Upper Waitaki Hydroelectric Scheme - Twizel has a resident population of 1,650 (June 2020) during the summer, holidaymakers nearly triple the town's population - The name comes from the nearby Twizel River, in turn named for Twizel Bridge in Northumberland by John Turnbull Thomson, Chief Surveyor of Otago in the mid-19th century. - The town was laid out in a 'Scandinavian' fashion, featuring looping roads and pedestrian ways, making it usually far more direct to walk than use a car