The rinky-dink demographics of Fiord County
Lloyd Esler12:00, Jul 20 2021 Supplied/Stuff Lake Hauroko, once part of Fiord County, from the lookout point During the early 19th Century the south’s fiords were well explored and charted, the anomalies left by early expeditions were amended and the gaps filled in. Not so the interior of Fiordland, where towering snow-topped peaks and deep gloomy valleys, cirques, aretes, cataracts, torrents, precipices, vulgar weather and huge rainfall made exploration unappealing for all but the sturdiest. This large unknown and uninhabited corner of the South Island became Fiord County in 1876. It w...
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