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Skippers canyon

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Skippers canyon
Frederick Radcliffe took this photograph of the road to Skippers around 1909. In the foreground is the Lighthouse, a rock formation which overlooks the road and the Shotover River at the base of the canyon.

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Auckland Council Libraries − Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau

Reference: 35-R1392

by Frederick George Radcliffe

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Wakatipu basin, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22852/skippers-canyon (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.