Homer Tunnel
Hand-hewn granite road tunnel through an alpine range, carrying travellers down toward a fiord.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Homer Tunnel, on the road from Queenstown's region to Milford Sound, goes back to nineteen thirty-five and the Depression relief workers who started it with picks and wheelbarrows. It follows the money: how those men were paid, who the road was meant to earn for, and the private contractor that stepped in after the mountain turned deadly. Listen while you wait at the traffic light by the portal, facing the bare granite.
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