Place:Balfour, Southland, New Zealand

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NameBalfour
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates45.85°S 168.6°E
Located inSouthland, New Zealand
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Balfour is a small town located in the Southland region of New Zealand.

Accounts of Balfour's naming differ: according to one report, it was named after an employee of the Waimea Company who lived there; alternatively it may have been named after James Melville Balfour, Marine Engineer to the New Zealand Government and uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson.

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