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Kōrero: Mountains

Mt Owen

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Mt Owen

At 1,875 metres, Mt Owen is the highest mountain in the north-west of the South Island. One of the few New Zealand mountains made of marble, it has unusual erosion features which provided one of many dramatic settings for the film trilogy The lord of the rings.

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Andy Dennis, Mountains – South Island mountains, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14302/mt-owen (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Andy Dennis, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.