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Coastal Otago

Some of these are coastal illustrations only. The river mouths and beaches in most cases are sites.

All pictures are thumbnails

21890039.JPG (89296 bytes) Nugget Point
21890041.JPG (76154 bytes) Old Clutha River Outlet
21890027.JPG (101717 bytes) Watson's Beach, Archaic site
21890033.JPG (44608 bytes) Lake Waihola
21890029.JPG (78316 bytes) Taieri Mouth and Island, the latter was a whaling station
21890030.JPG (114872 bytes) Brighton
21890031.JPG (36845 bytes) Outer Otago Harbour looking east
21890032.JPG (71048 bytes) Inner Otago Harbour looking east
21890050.JPG (38160 bytes) Inner Otago Harbour
21890051.JPG (69881 bytes) Quarantine Island, Otago Harbour
21890053.JPG (75065 bytes) Quarantine Station
21890052.JPG (114371 bytes) Larnach's Castle
21890056.JPG (82758 bytes) Taiaroa Head, pa and historic sites
21890055.JPG (54846 bytes) Kaikai's Beach, Murdering Beach
21890058.JPG (68605 bytes) Purakanui, Mapoutahi Pa (right foreground)
21890001.JPG (82007 bytes) Mapoutahi Pa
21890059.JPG (106614 bytes) Long Beach
21890042.JPG (84820 bytes) Matakana Buildings, Waikouaiti, Johnny Jones settlement, NZ's oldest farm  buildings (1840's)
21890043.JPG (66013 bytes) Pleasant River Mouth, looking southwest. The Moahunter site was on the near side of the channel just below centre on the photograph
21890045.JPG (62990 bytes) Shag River mouth looking northeast. The Moahunter site was in the dunes to the right of the river mouth 
21890046.JPG (74150 bytes) Shag River Mouth looking southwest
21890044.JPG (62352 bytes) Katiki Point and lighthouse
21890047.JPG (89966 bytes) Katiki Point Pa and lighthouse settlement
21890054.JPG (132737 bytes) Umu ti (ovens for long baking of ti roots, to create a form of sugar), Otakou
21890057.JPG (102316 bytes) Umu Ti (the small dimples in the foreground), and nineteenth-century ploughed fields, Otakou
21890023.JPG (104315 bytes) Waiteruaiti Pa (South Canterbury), defensive ditches and banks are prominent
21890024.JPG (64203 bytes) Waitaki River Mouth, the Moahunter sites (mainly ovens) were on the edges of the terraces by the modern coastline. The coastline has been eroding rapidly
21890015.JPG (59066 bytes) Kakanui