Nelson

Nelson, port city and unitary authority, northern South Island, New Zealand. It is located on an inlet at the head of Tasman Bay, at the mouth of the Matai River. It was settled by the New Zealand Company in 1842 and named for British admiral Lord Nelson but was delayed in its development by a Maori attack two years later. It was declared a city and the seat of an Anglican bishopric in 1858, and...