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Stonehenge Aotearoa

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Stonehenge Aotearoa

The sun sets over Stonehenge Aotearoa, near Gladstone. The stone circle is a full-scale adaptation of Stonehenge in England.

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Ben Schrader, Wairarapa places – Carterton, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12020/stonehenge-aotearoa (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 2 March 2009, updated 11 June 2015.