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Picton foreshore

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Picton foreshore

Picton’s foreshore features well-tended lawns and flower beds and mature Canary Island palms. In the background is one of the inter-island ferries which have been the town’s economic life blood since the early 1960s.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Marlborough places – Picton, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31836/picton-foreshore (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 9 May 2011, updated 18 June 2015.