Blue Lake Huts
The place
Blue Lake Huts in the Otago region, Queenstown/St Bathans sector (Central Otago Rock and Pillar Range, Otago, New Zealand), at 1,289 m elevation, on the Rock and Pillar Range plateau. Continuous New Zealand Otago cluster (batches 200-366). Historic Blue Lake mining huts (former sluicing gold-mining operation, the 1860-1890 golden fever in Central Otago Dunstan/Cardrona + Blue Lake, an old mining basin worked with high-pressure hydraulic water jets from 1863 + St Bathans, an iconic historic gold ghost town + Central Otago Rail Trail, 152 km along an old 1990s railway line, heritage listed + heritage of the Kāi Tahu (Ngāi Tahu Māori iwi of the South Island, 60,000 people, Māori language since 1300 BCE + Treaty of Waitangi 1840 with Queen Victoria + Kāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, NZ$170M redress, 40% of southern commercial fisheries + the traditional poutou tāua).
The setting
Otago, Queenstown/St Bathans, Central Otago Rock and Pillar NZ, 1,289 m Rock and Pillar Range plateau, continuous cluster batches 200-366, historic Blue Lake mining huts, sluicing gold, 1860-1890 fever, Central Otago Dunstan/Cardrona + old hydraulic mining basin, jets from 1863 + iconic gold ghost town St Bathans + Central Otago Rail Trail 152 km old 1990s railway, Kāi Tahu Ngāi Tahu Māori South Island 60,000, Māori since 1300 BCE + Treaty of Waitangi 1840 + Kāi Tahu Settlement Act 1998, NZ$170M, 40% of southern fisheries + poutou tāua.
