12 Mile Delta
Lakeside river-delta campsite at a creek mouth, with trails to a gold-miner's stone hut and waterfall.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Twelve Mile Delta near Queenstown follows the creek that spills into Lake Wakatipu here, and one young man who turned to it for work as the Great Depression closed in. It touches the gold miners and Chinese diggers who laboured in the gorge before him, and the stone hut still standing upstream. Best heard at the creek mouth, where the water meets the lake.
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