Diamond Lake
Small bulrush-fringed lake below glacier-carved bluffs, with a lookout platform and summit tracks.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Diamond Lake, out on the road west of Wanaka near Queenstown, follows the money beneath one small viewing platform. It reaches back to a runholder named John Roy and the leased hills of Glendhu Station, then forward to a government scheme of the two thousands that decided who would own them. Along the way, locals who skated this lake in the frozen winters of the nineteen fifties turn up. Best heard at the platform rail, looking out over the rushes toward Lake Wanaka.
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