Moraine Hut
Canterbury · Nouvelle-Zélande0 mUnguardedVerified listing
The place
Moraine Hut in the Rakaia valley, Methven/Lake Coleridge sector (Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand), at 684 m elevation, on a glacial moraine (post-Pleistocene deposit). Continuous Canterbury cluster (batches 231-294). A DOC hut on or beside a glacial moraine, part of the heritage of the pioneering pastoral explorers of the 19th century (Samuel Butler, writer and farmer, author of Erewhon, 1872).
Off-season beds
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The setting
Rakaia Methven/Lake Coleridge Canterbury NZ 684 m post-Pleistocene moraine, continuous cluster batches 231-294, DOC hut, Samuel Butler Erewhon 1872 pioneers.
