Upper Hurunui Photo Album

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Upper Hurunui Photo Album
Photo location 12: Channel between Lake Sumner and Loch Katrine
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Hurunui River upper reaches - Photo locators

Upper North Branch
North Branch
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Hurunui River upper reaches - Photo locators

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Photos Hurunui Upper North Branch to Lake Sumner
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*All photos are within ECAN’s proposed Zone C unless stated otherwise

Macs Knob
Mount Longfellow
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Photo location 1: Upper North Branch floodplain & river flats, coalescing fans and isolated mountain.
Looking downstream toward Macs Knob and Mount Longfellow.
Woolshed Ridge
Crawford Range
Photo location 2:
Landslip Stream
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
Photo location 4:
Upper North Branch delta
landform.
Photo location 4:
Upper North Branch
delta landform. Looking
downstream toward
Lake Sumner
and Mount Longfellow.
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Upper North Branch

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Photo location 3: Upper North Branch floodplain, fans & river flats and coalescing fans landforms. Looking upstream. Crawford Range.
Flight photograph courtesy of Fish & Game
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Upper North Branch

Macs Knob above
Charleys Point
Photo location 5:
Lake Sumner looking
up Upper North
Branch. March 1985
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Lake Sumner
Conservation
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Photo location 61: Lake Sumner foreshore
Photo location 62: Loch Katrine foreshore
Photo location 62: Loch Katrine foreshore
Photo location 62: Loch Katrine foreshore
Photo location 62: Loch Katrine foreshore
Photo location 62: Loch Katrine foreshore
Photos Hurunui North Basin Lakes
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*All photos are within ECAN’s proposed Zone C unless stated otherwise
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Photo location 5: Three Mile Stream running out from Charleys Point into Lake Sumner
Photo location 5: Charleys Point (Fan delta landform), mouth of Three Mile Stream
150 years ago Julius Von Haast described the “thickly grassed riverbed” and “grassy rounded roches moutonnees”
of the glaciated Hurunui lakes area. “The contrast between these grassy rounded hills and the high
rugged mountains, covered to a height of 4,000 feet with dark beech forest, was very attractive.” At Sumner
Lake “It was indeed a great pleasure to be able once more to enjoy nature in her pure virgin solitude. The
quiet mirror of the lake, only disturbed here and there by ducks and other water birds; the dark forest, with the
rugged rocky peaks above it, reflected in the lake, formed a landscape of such exquisite beauty that I was very
unwilling to leave it.” (Lucas Associates,1995. p.16). Photograph courtesty of Shaun Barnett, Fish and Game, 2007.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
Photo location 7: Evangeline Stream
Photo location 6: Lake Sumner looking upstream toward Upper North Branch delta attachment 53
Lake Sumner

The Brothers - H13 Mountain range Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide Mount Longfellow - H13
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Photo point 8: Lake Sumner
Pass between Gabriel Stream and Jollie Brook
Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide
Photo point 8: Mount Longfellow, Lake Sumner
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Lake Sumner Outlet

Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide
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Photo point 8: Lake Sumner outlet.
Pass between Gabriel Stream and Jollie Brook
Photo point 8: Lake Sumner outlet to North Branch
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Lake Sumner Outlet

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Photo location 10: The Brothers north face from Observation Point on Hope Kiwi Track below Lake Marion.
Photo courtesy of Lesley Shand.
Photo location 9: Lake Marion looking south toward Lake Sumner
Photo location 12: Lake Sumner and Loch Katrine. Till and active floodplain and channel landform in
foreground.
Photo location 11: Macs Knob overlooking Lake Sumner and Loch Katrine
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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Lake Marion and Lake Katrine

The Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain
Hooligan Range on skyline
Oronoko Range - H13 Mountain range
Photo location 15: Lake Sheppard
Photo location 14:
Lake Mary
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Photo location 13: Lake Sheppard and LakeTaylor separated by Conical Hill. Looking
south toward The Lakes Station.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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Lake Sheppard, Lake Taylor and Lake Mary

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Photo point 16: South of The Brothers from The Sister.
Oronoko Range - H13 Mountain range
Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain.
Woolshed Ridge - H13 Mountain range
Photo point 17: Lake Sheppard from The Sisters.
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‘Cultured Nature’

Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide.
The Brothers - H13 Mountain range.
Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain.
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Photo point 18: Lake Taylor
Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide.
The Brothers - H13 Mountain range.
Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain
Photo point 18: Lake Taylor
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Lake Taylor

Woolshed Ridge - H13
Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide.
The Brothers - H13 Mountain range
Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain.
The Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain
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Photo point 19: Lake Taylor
Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain.
The Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain
Photo point 19: Lake Taylor
Photo point 20: Lake Taylor
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Lake Taylor

Woolshed Ridge - H13 Mountain range
Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide.
The Brothers - H13 Mountain range
Conical Hill - H7
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Photo point 20: Lake Taylor
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Lake Taylor

Woolshed Ridge - H13 Mountain range.
Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain.
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The Brothers - H13 Mountain range
The Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain
Photo point 21: Lake Taylor camp site/reserve.
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Lake Taylor

Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain
The Brothers - H13 Mountain range
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Photo point 22: The Lakes looking north toward The Brothers. Raupo Pond is in the foreground below The Lakes homestead.
Conical Hill - H7 Isolated mountain
The Brothers - H13 Mountain range
The Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain
Photo point 22: The Lakes looking north toward The Brothers. Raupo Pond is in the foreground below The Lakes homestead.
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The Lakes Station

Jollie Brook northeast cloud
Photo point 23: Sisters Stream
Conical Hill - H 7 Isolated mountain The Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain Little Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain
Photo point 24: Sisters Stream
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Major
River Valley L.T.
Sisters Stream

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Photo point 63: Lake Sumner outlet to North Branch
Photos Hurunui North Branch
PROPOSED HURUNUI & WAIAU RIVER REGIONAL PLAN
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*All photos are within ECAN’s proposed Zone C unless stated otherwise

Haast recorded “Before the shore can be reached, at
least ten old beaches, fully preserved and extending
over the valley in a half circle, have to be descended.”
Julius von Haast. 1859. A VISIT TO THE HURUNUI, in Alone in a Mountain World.
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Photo location 25: Beach
deposits at lake mouth.
Photo courtesy of Lesley Shand
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
Photo location 8
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Lake Sumner Outlet

Pass between Gabriel Stream and Jollie Brook
Spur on true right of Jollie Brook
Northeast cloud
Photo point 26: North Branch eastern end of The Brothers, below Gabriels looking downstream across younger terraces and floodplain L.T. Kowhai line the river banks.
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Spur on true right of Jollie Brook
Northeast cloud
Photo point 27: North Branch eastern end of The Brothers, below Gabriels looking downstream across younger terraces and floodplain L.T.
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North Branch eastern end of The Brothers (H1 + H2 L.T.)

Mount Longfellow - H13 Mountain range.
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Photo point 29: North Branch younger terraces and floodplain.
Photo point 28: Mount Longfellow - H13 Mountain range.
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North Branch eastern end of The Brothers (H1 + H2 L.T.)

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Photo point 30: North Branch looking downstream across younger terraces and floodplain L.T.
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North Branch eastern end of The Brothers (H1 Major river, valley fill & H2 Glacial and fluvial valley floor L.T.)

Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide
Mount Longfellow - H13
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Photo point 31:
Lake Sumner
Road
Little Sisters - H7 Isolated Mountain.
Mount Longfellow - H13 Mountain Range
Photo point 32: Lake Sumner Road
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Major River Valley L.T. below Sisters Stream

Jollie Brook - H13 Mountain range
Little Sisters - H7 Isolated mountain
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Photo location 33: Jollie Brook confluence with North Branch looking north toward Little Sisters.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
Photo location 33: Jollie
Brook confluence looking
upstream.
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Jollie Brook

Jollie Brook
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Photo point 35: Looking upstream Hurunui River. Lake Sumner Road on true right of river.
Jollie Brook
Photo point 36: Looking north toward Jollie Brook. ‘Cotton wool’ cloud on true right of Jollie Brook. Hurunui River to right of telegraph lines.
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Hurunui River terraces below Jollie Brook

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Photo point 37: Bedrock channel looking toward South
Branch confluence
Photo point 37: North Branch above South Branch confluence looking upstream toward Jollie Brook & Mt Longfellow
Photo point 37: Bedrock channel
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North Branch above
South Branch confluence
(Incised channel cut into bedrock
with remnant terraces L.T.)

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Photo location 38:
Dozy Stream confluence to
North Branch below South
Branch confluence.
Flight photograph courtesy of Fish & Game
Photo point 39: From bottom
end of Maori Gully looking
upstream.
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Maori Gully (Incised channel cut into
bedrock with remnant terraces L.T.)

Surveyors Stream
Hurunui Range
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Photo location 40: Maori Gully looking downstream toward Surveyors
Stream and terraces. Lake Sumner Road on right
Photo location 41: North Branch intermediate and low terraces
southeast of Mt Miza below Maori Gully. Looking
downstream toward Dampier Knob.
Photo location 42: Looking downstream toward Beau Saddle.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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North Branch Maori Gully to below Beau Saddle (Low to high terraces L.T’s)

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Photo location 44: Angler - Mandamus confluence
Zone B
Photo location 43: Downstream of Glenrae confluence to North
Branch looking toward Dampier Knob.
Zone B
Photo location 44: Mandamus confluence.
Zone B
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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Mandamus confluence to Hurunui

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Photo location 44:
Mandamus
Zone B
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Hurunui River &
Mandamus
July 1982

South Branch toward Operation Ark
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Photo location 46: South Branch north of Mason Stream
confluence looking upstream. Flight photograph courtesy of
Fish & Game.
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Bell Knoll - H7 Isolated Hill
Photo location
45: Lake Mason
(south) outlet into
Mason Stream
which drains into
South Branch.
Bell Knoll in centre
background.
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Photo location 45: Lake Mason and Lake Mason Hut.
Looking south toward South Branch. Bell Knoll and Island
Hills in centre background.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
Photo location 45: Lake Mason (north).
Looking toward the northern end of
Woolshed Ridge.
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Lake Mason

Island Hills - H13 Mountain range
Bell Knoll - H7 Isolated mountain
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Photo location 47: South Branch basin
Photography courtesy of Lesley Shand (Autumn 2007)
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Studleigh Range - H13 Mountain range
Looking up stream toward Stony Stream
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South Branch Basin (Floodplains, fans and river flats L.T.)

Crawford Range - H19 Main divide
Bell Knoll - H7 Isolated mountain
Nelson Tops - H19 Main divide
Woolshed Ridge - H13 Mountain range
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Photo location 48
Glacial depositional landforms: Moraine
Fluvial depositional landforms: Coalescing fans, high terraces & fans
Photography courtesy of Lesley Shand (1983)
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Red Tussock south of Bell Knoll

Crawford Range - H19 Main divide.
Mason Stream public access to South Branch
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Photo poiint 49: South Branch river bed
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South Branch Basin (Floodplains, fans and river flats L.T.)

Studleigh Range - H13 Mountain range Bell Knoll - H7 Isolated mountain. Crawford Range - H19 Main divide.
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Photo point 49: South Branch basin looking upstream. Moraine, High terraces and Isolated Mountain (Bell Knoll) landforms in midground.
Raoulia hookeri
Raoulia haastii
Scleranthus uniflorus
Raoulia subsericea
Photo point 49: Flora of the fluvial channelled island in the South Branch.
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South Branch Basin (Floodplains, fans and river flats L.T.)

Studleigh Range - H13 Mountain range
Crawford Range - H19 Main divide.
Mason Stream public access to South Branch
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Photo point 50: South Branch basin looking upstream.
Muehlenbeckia axilliaris
Raoulia subsericea
Photo point 49: Flora of the fluvial channelled island in the South Branch (see above photo)
Raoulia subsericea
Aristotelia fruticosa
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South Branch Basin (Floodplains, fans and river flats)

Puketeraki Range - H9
Dampier Range - H13 Mountain. range.
Island Hills - H13 Mountain range
Moraine
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Photo point 50: South Branch basin looking downstream.
Raoulia subsericea & Epilobium brunnescens Raoulia hookeri Epilobium brunnescens
Photo point 49: Flora of the fluvial channelled island in the South Branch.
Raoulia tenuiculusis with
Hydrocotyle novae-zelandiae growing out of it
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Studleigh Range - H13 Mountain range Bell Knoll - H7 Isolated mountain. Crawford Range - H19 Main divide.
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Photo point 50: South Branch basin looking upstream. Fluvial channelled island in foreground hosts an array of indigenous flora (see below photos).
Raoulia haastii Raoulia hookeri Epilobium brunnescens Raoulia subsericea Raoulia hookeri
Muehlenbeckia axilliaris Epilobium melanocaulin
Raoulia tenuiculusis
Photo point 49: Flora of the fluvial channelled island in the South Branch (see above photo)
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South Branch Basin (Floodplains, fans and river flats)

Island Hills - H13 Mountain range
Studleigh Range - H13 Mountain range.
Bell Knoll - H7 Isolated mountain.
Crawford Range - H19 Main Divide
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Moraine - Glacial depositional landform
Photo point 50: South Branch basin
looking upstream
Homestead Stream, between high
terraces & fans (left) and moraine (right)
Dampier Range - H13 Mountain range
Island Hills - H13 Mountain range
Moraine - Glacial depositional landform
Photo point 50: South Branch basin looking downstream
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South Branch Basin (Glacial and fluvial valley floor L.T.)

Island Hills - H13 Mountain range
Studleigh Range - H13
Crawford Range - H19 Main divide
Photo point 51: South Branch basin looking upstream
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Photo point 51: Flax Stream track
Photo point 51: Dampier Range - H13 Mountain range.
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South Branch Basin (Glacial and fluvial valley floor L.T.)

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Photo point 52: Distinctive change in vegetation from Kanuka & Manuka on the north side to Beech forest on the south side of Woolshed Ridge.
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Flax Stream Track

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Photo location 53: South Branch looking downstream toward North
Esk confluence with South Branch.
Photo location 53: South Branch looking downstream toward North
Esk confluence with South Branch.
Photo location 53: South Branch looking downstream toward North
Esk confluence with South Branch.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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South Branch Basin (Floodplains, fans and river flats L.T.)

Studleigh Range - H13 Mountain range Crawford Range - H19 Main divide Oronoko Range - H13 Mountain range
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Photo location 54: South Branch basin from above gorge looking
upstream toward Bell Knoll, Studleigh and Crawford Ranges.
Photo location 55: Looking upstream toward South Branch basin. Green remnant terrace in foreground.
Photography courtesy of Lesley Shand (Autumn 2007)
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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South Branch Gorge

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Photo location 56: South Branch gorge looking downstream.
Photo location 56: South Branch gorge.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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South Branch

Remnant Terraces
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Photo location 57: South Branch gorge looking downstream toward Esk
Head Station. Hooligan Range in background.
Photo location 56: South Branch gorge looking upstream
Photo location 58: South Branch gorge looking downstream toward
Hooligan Range. Esk Head Station woolshed on terrace in centre of
photograph.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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South Branch Gorge

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Photo location 59: South Branch gorge looking downstream toward Hooligan Range and South Branch confluence.
Flight photographs courtesy of Fish & Game
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South Branch Gorge (Remnant terraces & floodplain L.T.)

Dampier Range - H13 Mountain range
Oronoko Range - H13 Mountain range
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Oronoko Range - H13
South Branch confluence
Photo point 60: South Branch
looking upstream (‘rock gate’
of Oronoko Range)
Photo point 60: South Branch looking downstream toward mainstem of the Hurunui River
Photo courtesy of Lesley Shand.
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At South Branch confluence to Mainstem (Remnant terraces & floodplain L.T.)

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