Rock Hut
The place
Rock Hut in the Southland region, Colac Bay/Longwood Forest area (southwestern Southland, South Island, New Zealand), at 327 m altitude, in temperate rainforest. Continuous New Zealand Southland cluster (batches 260-412). A DOC standard hut in the historic gold-mining Longwood Forest (Longwood Forest, 400 km² of iconic temperate rainforest; Colac Bay on the edge of Foveaux Strait; Foveaux Strait, the 35 km stretch of water to Stewart Island, an arm of the Antarctic; iconic gold mining in the Longwoods, 1863-1930) plus the heritage of Kāi Tahu/Ngāi Tahu (the South Island Māori iwi, 60,000 people, the Kāi Tahu dialect of the Māori language; pounamu, greenstone, a taonga from the iconic Arahura River in Westland; the Treaty of Waitangi, 6 February 1840; the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, NZ$170 million; the iconic heritage of Rakiura/Stewart Island, New Zealand's 3rd largest island, 1,600 km², Rakiura National Park established 1999; the endemic kiwi Apteryx australis lawryi; the iconic heritage of Sir Edmund Hillary, 1919-2008, mountaineer, first to summit Everest on 29 May 1953; the iconic heritage of Fiordland National Park, 12,500 km², UNESCO Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Site since 1990; the iconic Milford Track, "the finest walk in the world"; the iconic heritage of Ernest Rutherford, 1871-1937, from Nelson, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908, father of nuclear physics; the iconic Lord of the Rings, directed by Peter Jackson, 2001-2003; and the iconic Predator Free 2050 New Zealand initiative, launched 2016).
The setting
Southland, Colac Bay/Longwood Forest, southwestern Southland, South Island, NZ, 327 m, temperate rainforest, continuous cluster batches 260-412, DOC standard hut, historic gold-mining Longwood Forest, plus Longwood Forest 400 km² iconic, plus Colac Bay/Foveaux Strait, plus Foveaux Strait to Stewart 35 km arm of the Antarctic, plus gold mining Longwoods 1863-1930 iconic, Kāi Tahu/Ngāi Tahu, South Island, 60,000, Māori Kāi Tahu dialect, plus pounamu Arahura Westland iconic, plus Waitangi 6 Feb 1840, plus Settlement Act 1998 NZ$170 million, plus Rakiura/Stewart Island NZ's 3rd island 1,600 km², Rakiura NP 1999, plus endemic kiwi Apteryx australis lawryi, plus Hillary 1919-2008, Everest 29 May 1953, first, iconic, plus Fiordland NP 12,500 km², UNESCO 1990, Te Wahipounamu, iconic, plus Milford Track "finest walk in the world," iconic, plus Rutherford 1871-1937, Nelson, Nobel Chemistry 1908, father of nuclear physics, iconic, plus LOTR, Jackson, 2001-2003, iconic, plus Predator Free 2050 NZ 2016, iconic.
