Roys Peak Track
Steep farmland summit trail with sweeping views over a glacial lake to the Southern Alps.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Roys Peak Track, above Lake Wanaka near Queenstown, is about the man whose name the mountain carries: John Roy, a surveyor and land speculator who took up the surrounding run in eighteen sixty. It follows a young sheep station, a father-in-law's livestock, and the first European family to settle the Wanaka district. Best heard on the open farmland of the lower slopes, where the fences still mark working pasture.
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