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Howells Hut

Otago · Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Howells Hut in the Rock and Pillar range, Middlemarch/Alexandra area (Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand), at 828 m altitude, on a granite plateau. Continuous Otago cluster (batches 181-324). Historic musterers' hut (surname Howells, 19th century), an area with Chionochloa tussock and the Central Otago Rail Trail (150 km cycling trail on the former Otago Central Railway, built 1907, closed 1990).

Off-season beds
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The setting

Rock and Pillar Middlemarch/Alexandra Central Otago NZ 828 m granite plateau, continuous cluster batches 181-324, Howells 19th c. musterers, Chionochloa, Central Otago Rail Trail 150 km 1907-1990.