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Tramping on the Routeburn Track

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Tramping on the Routeburn Track

Two trampers are framed by drying socks at Flats Hut, near the Glenorchy end of the Routeburn Track. The famous track, which passes through Mount Aspiring and Fiordland national parks, is classified as a Great Walk.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 12 February 2005, p. 113

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Nancy Swarbrick, National parks – Lower South Island parks, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/14457/tramping-on-the-routeburn-track (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2015.