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Dome Burn Sod Hut

Southland · Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Dome Burn Sod Hut in Southland, Riversdale/Waikaia sector (southern Otago, South Island, New Zealand), at 310 m elevation. Continuous Otago cluster (batches 181-322). Sod Hut = historic hut built from earth/peat/turf blocks (pioneer construction technique of 19th-century settlers), a unique NZ heritage (2 surviving sod huts in NZ). Tussock country, heritage of the Central Otago Waikaia gold rushes of the 1860s.

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The setting

Dome Burn Riversdale/Waikaia Southland/Otago NZ 310 m, continuous cluster batches 181-322, sod hut earth/peat/turf pioneer 19th-century technique unique NZ 2 survivors, tussock, Central Otago gold rushes 1860s.