Wire Yards Hut
The place
Wire Yards Hut in the Mackenzie Country, Twizel/Fairlie area (Canterbury/Otago, South Island, New Zealand), at 1,515 m elevation, Mackenzie plateau. Continuous Otago cluster (batches 181-318). Historic musterers' hut (wire yards used for sorting sheep), an area of Chionochloa tussock, and heritage of James "Jock" Mackenzie (Scottish sheep-rustler, 1855, bandit chief the region is named after, sentenced to 5 years, captured by Māori tracker John Sidebottom).
The setting
Mackenzie Country, Twizel/Fairlie, Canterbury/Otago, NZ, 1,515 m, Mackenzie plateau, continuous cluster batches 181-318, musterers' wire yards, Chionochloa tussock, Jock Mackenzie Scottish rustler 1855 sentenced 5 years captured by Sidebottom.