Baileys Hut
The place
Baileys Hut in the Old Man Range, Alexandra/Roxburgh area (Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand), at 786 m elevation, 1600 m tussock plateau. Continuous Central Otago cluster (batches 200-332). Historic musterer's (merino sheep-mustering) and gold-digger's hut from the Central Otago Gold Rush of 1861-64, area of high-elevation red tussock Chionochloa rubra, heritage of Kāi Tahu (the southern Ngāi Tahu iwi, 60,000 people, the largest iwi in the South Island) and of the 1861 Otago gold rushes (200,000 prospectors, southern Chinese making up 40% of Alexandra's population).
The setting
Old Man Range Alexandra/Roxburgh Central Otago NZ 786 m 1600 m tussock plateau, continuous cluster batches 200-332, historic merino musterer + gold-digger Otago Rush 1861-64, Chionochloa rubra red tussock, Kāi Tahu 60,000 largest South Island iwi, Otago Rush 200,000 Chinese 40% pop.
