Otago

//əˈtɐːɡɐʉ// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A region in the South Island of New Zealand.
  2. 2
    A suburb of the City of Clarence and Brighton Council, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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"Neil Gemmell, a geneticist from the University of Otago in New Zealand, led the study that tried to catalog all living species in the lake by extracting DNA from water samples."

Etymology

From Māori Ōtākou. This spelling reflects a South Island dialectal realization of the ⟨k⟩ phoneme as [ɡ].

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Central Otagonew zealandsouth island

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