Mossburn

Mossburn is a small village in the west of the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located south of Queenstown and east of Te Anau. At the 2001 census the town had 240 inhabitants, 129 male and 111 female. This is a decrease by 12.1 % since the previous census in 1996. Mossburn is located on State Highway 94 and is a station on the Southern Scenic Route.

The town's economy is dominated by agriculture, especially cattle, deer farming and sheep farming. Because of the large number of deer farms to Mossburn sees as " deer capital" of New Zealand. The dairy industry has won in recent years by the conversion of sheep holdings and mixed farms in importance.

The biggest boost to the economy of Moss Burns was the construction of the Manapouri hydroelectric power plant. The Mossburn branch line since 1887 had its terminus in Mossburn and was the nearest railway line to the project. Previously, the track is frequented only by week two mixed freight and passenger trains. On 4 October 1937, the passenger traffic had been adjusted. The trains ran from Lumsden on the Kingston branch line. With the start of work on the power plant and other development projects funded by the government, for example in agriculture, came a, sometimes two trains per day from Invercargill. By the early 1980s, the work was completed and the railway closed on 13 December 1982, the line was dismantled.

End of 2006 / beginning of 2007, a wind farm with 29 turbines built at 2 MW each on the Whitehill. You can at full power 30,000 households with electricity. The wind farm was opened by Prime Minister Helen Clark on June 8, 2007.