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Cookshop Hut

Canterbury · Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Cookshop Hut in the Canterbury region, upper Rangitata valley/Erewhon sector (South Island, New Zealand), at 575 m altitude, Arrowsmith Range. Continuous cluster Canterbury Rangitata (batches 230-252). Former sheep station cookshop converted into a free shelter for trampers. Zone with tussock (Chionochloa), matagouri (Discaria toumatou) and beech forest, heritage of the 19th-century high country shepherds and Samuel Butler's "Erewhon".

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The setting

Canterbury Rangitata/Erewhon Arrowsmith Range NZ 575 m, continuous cluster batches 230-252, former sheep station cookshop 19th-century shepherds Samuel Butler.