Denniston Plateau

West Coast Region · New Zealand

Denniston Plateau, New Zealand
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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October to April
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A windswept coal-mining plateau above Westport, once served by the famously steep Denniston Incline. Rusting relics and interpretive tracks tell of the hardship of the settlement that clung to the escarpment.

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