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Ōtara, meaning "The Place of Tara", is a shortened form of Ōtara Hill / Te Puke ō Tara, the volcanic hill previously found to the north of the suburb. [3] [4] The hill is either named for the Waiohua ancestor and taniwha of the Manukau Harbour, Tara-mai-nuku, or for the 19th century paramount chief of Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Tara Te Irirangi. [5]
Pukewairiki, near the mouth of the Ōtara Creek Aerial view of the Ōtara Creek in 1959. The name of the creek comes from its name in Māori, Te Waiōtara.The name literally means "The Waters of Tara", referencing Tara Te Irirangi, a Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki rangatira of the early 19th Century.
Aerial view of Ōtara Hill in 1958, before quarrying. Ōtara Hill (also Te Puke o Tara or Smales Mount) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field.Its scoria cone reached 89 m above sea level (around 59 m higher than the surrounding land) before it was quarried away.
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Otatara is an outer suburb of New Zealand's southernmost city, Invercargill.It is surrounded by the Ōreti River to the west and south, and its estuary and Invercargill Airport to the east, and West Plains to the north.
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English: Aerial view of parts of Papatoetoe, Otara and East Tamaki, 11 February 1959. This shot was taken looking northward towards Otahuhu and the Tamaki Estuary. The Otara Creek and Pakuranga Creek successively debouch into the estuary at right. At this date, urban development had mostly been restricted to the western side of the Southern ...