Key Summit
Alpine knoll of tarns, bogs and boardwalks with sweeping views over Fiordland's Darran Mountains.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Key Summit, a Fiordland day-walk high point reached from Queenstown, looks at the ground under your feet through the last ice age, when a glacier born in the Darran Mountains came down the Hollyford Valley. It follows that ice to The Divide and the valleys beyond, then turns to the fragile alpine wetland and the birds working the beech forest edge. Best heard on the summit boardwalk, facing the Darrans.
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