Lake Wānaka
Alpine lake ringed by mountains, with a lone willow growing from its shallows.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Lake Wānaka, near Queenstown, turns away from the mountains to a single willow standing in the shallows and the people who made it famous. It follows a fence post, a prize-winning photograph from twenty fourteen and an Instagram hashtag, and asks what a landscape owes the photographers who frame it. Best heard at the water's edge on the southern shore, near town.
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