Dome Hut
The place
Dome Hut in the Otago region, Athol/Eyre Mountains sector (Southern Alps southwest Otago front, South Island, New Zealand), at 663 m elevation, on the Eyre Mountains slopes. Continuous New Zealand Otago cluster (batches 260-410). Historic musterer's hut from the Eyre Mountains Otago Rushes station (Eyre Mountains 2085 m Eyre Peak + Athol village + Mataura River tributary + heritage of the Kāi Tahu Ngāi Tahu (South Island Māori iwi 60,000, Māori language Kāi Tahu dialect + pounamu greenstone taonga Arahura River Westland iconic + Treaty of Waitangi 6 February 1840 + Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 NZ$170 M + iconic heritage Otago Gold Rush 1861 Gabriel Read Gabriel's Gully 100,000 diggers + iconic heritage merino sheep stations Canterbury/Otago Plains + iconic heritage Ernest Rutherford 1871-1937 Nelson Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908 father of nuclear physics + Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923 Wellington iconic short-story writer + LOTR Peter Jackson 2001-2003 iconic + Predator Free 2050 NZ 2016 iconic + iconic heritage kiwi Apteryx national symbol + kea Nestor notabilis alpine parrot + iconic heritage bungee jumping Kawarau Bridge Queenstown 1988 A. J. Hackett Van Asch iconic + iconic heritage Queenstown 15,000 residents adrenaline tourism town).
The setting
Otago Athol/Eyre Mountains Southern Alps SW Otago front South Island NZ 663 m Eyre Mountains slopes, continuous cluster batches 260-410, musterer's hut Eyre Mountains Otago Rushes station + Eyre Mountains 2085 m Eyre Peak + Athol + Mataura River, Kāi Tahu/Ngāi Tahu South Island 60,000 Māori Kāi Tahu + pounamu Arahura Westland iconic + Waitangi 6 Feb 1840 + Settlement 1998 NZ$170 M + Otago Gold Rush 1861 Read Gully 100,000 diggers iconic + merino sheep stations Plains iconic + Rutherford 1871-1937 Nelson Nobel Chemistry 1908 father of nuclear physics iconic + Mansfield 1888-1923 Wellington short-story writer iconic + LOTR Jackson 2001-2003 iconic + Predator Free 2050 NZ 2016 + kiwi Apteryx symbol + kea Nestor alpine parrot + bungee Kawarau Bridge Queenstown 1988 Hackett Van Asch iconic + Queenstown 15,000 adrenaline tourism town iconic.
