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In 1856, a petition was put forward to the Governor General of NZ for a port at Bluff. He agreed and gave the name Invercargill to the settlement north of the port.

Inver comes from the Scots Gaelic word inbhirmeaning a river's mouth and Cargill is in honour of Captain William Cargill, who was at the time the Superintendent of Otago Province.

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