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Kōrero: Limestone country

Devils Boots

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Devils Boots

These limestone outcrops in the Aorere Valley in Golden Bay are so named because they look like the devil’s boots, sticking out of the ground upside down.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, W.T. L Travers Collection

Reference: PAColl-1574-03

by William Thomas Locke Travers

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Paul Williams, Limestone country – Other karst features, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12404/devils-boots (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Williams, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.