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Kōrero: Rivers

Flying fox

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Flying fox

This elaborate flying fox, with a hanging compartment, is carrying two people across the Buller River on the West Coast of the South Island.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tyree Studio Collection (PAColl-3064)

Reference: G-931-10x8

by Tyree Brothers

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

David Young, Rivers – The impact of European settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14696/flying-fox (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Young, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.