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Middle Hut

Canterbury · Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing

The place

Middle Hut in the Kaikōura Ranges, Kaikōura/Ward sector (Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand), at 646 m elevation. Continuous Marlborough cluster (batches 246-288). DOC hut in the Seaward Kaikōura Range, in the area at the epicentre of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake (magnitude 7.8, +0.9 m coastal uplift). World-famous whale watching at Kaikōura (resident sperm whales).

Off-season beds
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The setting

Kaikōura Ranges, Kaikōura/Ward, Marlborough, NZ, 646 m, Seaward Range, continuous cluster batches 246-288, DOC, 2016 M7.8 earthquake, +0.9 m uplift, whale watching, sperm whales.