{"id":3286,"count":4,"description":"Cromwell is a town in Central Otago in the Otago region of New Zealand.\nIt is situated between State Highway 6 (linking to Wanaka, 50\u00a0km north, and Queenstown, 60\u00a0km west) and State Highway 8 leading to the Lindis Pass, 75\u00a0km northeast, and Alexandra, 33\u00a0km south. The road to Alexandra winds through the Cromwell Gorge. A point near Cromwell lies 119 kilometres from the sea, the farthest from the sea anywhere in New Zealand.\nNearby settlements are at Bannockburn, Lowburn, Tarras, and Ripponvale.\nCromwell is also the home of the Cromwell Chafer Beetle (Prodontria lewisi).\nCromwell was originally known as \"The Junction\", being at the confluence of the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers. In 1862, gold was discovered below the Junction by two miners, Hartley and Reilly. Once the word of a gold strike was out, there was an influx of several thousand miners to the area.\nAs gold ran out, Cromwell became the service centre for an extensive farming and stone fruit growing area. It has a strategic...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/cromwell\/","name":"Cromwell","slug":"cromwell","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}