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Road sign, coastal Southland

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Road sign, coastal Southland

It’s only 100 metres from this sign to the more modest of the world’s two Niagara Falls. Only a dummy would make no progress, going the wrong way.

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David Grant, Southland places – Bluff and the south coast, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20170/road-sign-coastal-southland (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by David Grant, published 2 March 2009, updated 25 May 2015.