MacKENZIE COUNTRY
This gallery includes images from Lake Ohau, Twizel, Lindis Valley, Lindis Pass, Ahuriri.
This gallery includes images from Mt Cook, the Tasman Glacier and the MacKenzie Basin.
The Mackenzie Basin, popularly known as the Mackenzie Country, is an intermontane basin, located near the centre of the South Island of New Zealand. Historically famous mainly for sheep farming, the sparsely populated area is now also a popular tourism destination. The basin was named in the 1850s by and after James Mackenzie (or in his native Gaelic: Seumas MacCoinneach), a shepherd and sheep thief of Scottish origin, who herded his stolen flocks in what was then an area almost totally empty of any human habitation. Sparsely populated, and with only five settlements, Lake Tekapo, Mount Cook Village, Twizel, Omarama and Fairlie. The Mackenzie Country comprises an area of huge glacial lakes and snow-capped mountains. Prominent rivers crossing the Mackenzie Basin include the Waitaki, the Ahuriri, the Hakataramea and the Tekapo Rivers. Lakes Ohau, Pukaki, Alexandrina and Tekapo lie within the Mackenzie Basin. Source, web.
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