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Kōrero: Marlborough places

Sawcut Gorge

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Sawcut Gorge

Some 12 kilometres up the Waimā (Ure) River from State Highway One, Sawcut Gorge is a 50-metre long limestone chasm on Isolation Creek, around 150 metres deep but only 2 metres wide at its narrowest.

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by Jock Phillips

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Malcolm McKinnon, Marlborough places – Awatere valley, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/31871/sawcut-gorge (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 9 May 2011, updated 18 June 2015.