Ruataniwha Conservation Park
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Ruataniwha Conservation Park is a protected area near Twizel, in the Mackenzie District and Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island.
Ruataniwha Conservation Park
Twizel
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Twizel is the largest town in the Mackenzie District, in the Canterbury Region of the South Island of New Zealand. The town was founded in 1968 to house construction workers on the Upper Waitaki Hydro
Twizel (centre distance) from the air, alongside Lake Ruataniwha. Lake Benmore is seen in the foreground.
Two statues of black stilts (kakī) in the town centre, near the tourist information centre (background)
Heavy machinery from building the hydroelectric schemes at the entrance to Twizel (2019)