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Story: Landscapes – overview

View across Ōkārito Lagoon

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View across Ōkārito Lagoon

Photographer Robin Morrison took this evocative shot across the Ōkārito Lagoon about 1989. The snow-covered Southern Alps rise steeply behind the lagoon. The highest peak shown is Mt Adams.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

Reference: RMS/rH51/583

by Robin Morrison

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Eileen McSaveney, Landscapes – overview – Central South Island, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/13051/view-across-okarito-lagoon (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Eileen McSaveney, published 1 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.