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)
Mount Cook Village
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Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres south of the summit of the coun
Mount Cook Village down below in Hooker Valley, The Hermitage on the left, lodge and motel complex on the bottom right
Panorama of Hooker valley with Mount Cook Village on left in front of the Sealy Range, and Mount Sefton and The Footstool in the center of the frame