as far as Bluff in the west and Mataura in the north, elects one councillor to the 12-member Regional Council. Education The Catlins area hosts four co-educational schools: Tahakopa School, Tokanui School, and Romahapa School, all of which are primary schools; The Catlins Area School, Owaka is a combined primary and secondary school. It is the only one of the four with more than 100 pupils. The nearest dedicated secondary schools are South Otago High School in Balclutha and Menzies College in Wyndham. The nearest tertiary institution is Telford Rural Polytechnic, located at the edge of the Catlins at Otanomomo, south of Balclutha. Other than this, the nearest tertiary establishments are in Invercargill and Dunedin, the nearest university being the University of Otago in Dunedin. Medical services A hospital opened in Owaka in 1924, offering a decreasing range of services until its closure during the 1980s.Photograph (Owaka Hospital staff, 1957), Owaka Museum. Retrieved 28 September 2010. The building and grounds now host a youth hostel and holiday park. Today, Owaka is served by a medical centre and a pharmacy. The Southern District Health Board is responsible for most publicly funded health services in Otago and Southland, including the Catlins. The nearest hospital to most of the area is the community owned Clutha Health First, in Balclutha.Rural Hospitals, Health Down South. Retrieved 29 September 2010. There is another small hospital in Gore, a secondary level hospital in Invercargill, and a tertiary level hospital (Dunedin Hospital) in Dunedin. The last two are also university teaching hospitals. See also McLean Falls Notes References Bishop, D. G. and Turnbull, I. M. (compilers) (1996). Geology of the Dunedin Area. Lower Hutt, NZ: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences. . Buckingham, R. and Hall-Jones, J. (1985). The Catlins. Invercargill: Department of Conservation. . Catlins Walks and Tracks Information (1993). Owaka: Department of Conservation/Te Papa Atawhai. Dann, C. and Peat, N. (1989). Dunedin, North and South Otago. Wellington: GP Books. . Hogan, C. M. (2009) Yellow-eyed Penguin: Megadyptes antipodes. In N. Stromberg (ed.), GlobalTwitcher.com. Retrieved 30 September 2010. A. Asbjørn Jøn, 'Shipwrecks, Tourism and The Catlins Coast', Australian Folklore (2008) A. Asbjørn Jøn, 'Shipwreck Artifacts from the S.S. Otago and the S.S. Tairoa as Symbols of Dominant Maritime Regional Identity Narratives in Southeastern New Zealand', Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology, volume 8 (2016): pp. 28–49. Peat, N. (1998). The Catlins and the Southern Scenic Route.