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Deutsch: Brightwater ist eine Stadt in der Region Tasman auf der Südinsel Neuseelands. Sie liegt 20 km südwestlich von Nelson an den Ufern des Wairoa River und am State Highway 6. Der Ort hatte beim Zensus 2006 1.794 ständige Einwohner. (→Brightwater)
English: Brightwater is a town 20 kilometres southwest of Nelson in Tasman district in the South Island of New Zealand. It stands on the banks of the Wairoa River. Brightwater was named by Alfred Saunders, the owner of a local Flax mill situated on the banks of the Wairoa River, after a popular song at the time "Bright Water", which was about choosing non-alcoholic drinks over spirits. The settlement was named in 1855, but the area was settled as early as 1843. (→Brightwater)
Nederlands: Brightwater is een plaats 20 kilometer ten zuidwesten van Nelson op het Zuidereiland van Nieuw-Zeeland. Brightwater ligt aan de oever van de Wairoa-rivier en kreeg pas in 1855 zijn naam van Alfred Saunders, eigenaar van een lokale vlasmolen, hoewel het gebied al sinds 1843 bewoond was. (→Brightwater)
Polski: Brightwater – miasto w Nowej Zelandii. Położone w północnej części Wyspy Południowej, w regionie Tasman, 2107 mieszkańców. (dane szacunkowe – styczeń 2010). (→Brightwater)
Scots: Brightwater is a toun 20 km sooth-west o Nelson in the Sooth Isle o New Zealand. It haes aboot 2,000 fowk, the 2006 census fund 1794 fowk. The toun is alang the bank o the Wairoa River. The steid wis fund aboot 1843, but wis named by a local towe mill awner, Alfred Saunders, in 1855. Faur-kent nuclear pheesicist Sir Ernest Rutherford wis barn here. (→Brightwater)
Svenska: Brightwater är en småstad på Nya Zeelands sydö i regionen Tasman, 20 kilometer sydväst om staden Nelson. Brightwater var födelseplatsen för den Nobelprisbelönade experimentalfysikern Ernest Rutherford som kallats kärnfysikens fader. (→Brightwater)
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