"Kaitangata" is small town near the coast of South Otago in New Zealand.
In Maori language, Kaitangata means human food - kai being food and tangata being human, or people. Kaitangata has sometimes been used to mean cannibal.
In Polynesian mythology, Kaitangata is a son of Rehua who fell to Earth, his blood staining the sky red. This is the origin of the fantastic colors seen at sunset.
Kaitangata is a town near the coast of South Otago, New Zealand, on the left bank of the Clutha River ten kilometres south east of Balclutha.
According to the 2001 census, the usually resident population of Kaitangata was 789, a decrease of 75 since 1996.
One of New Zealand's early industrial disasters occurred at the Kaitangata mine in 1879, when the lives of 34 miners were lost in an underground explosion.
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