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Kōrero: Nelson places

Murchison earthquake survivors, 1999

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Sisters Doris Nalder and Gertie Oxnam survey the scene of the earthquake-triggered landslide that nearly killed them at Murchison Primary School 70 years earlier.

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Carl Walrond, Nelson places – Upper Buller River valley, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/29085/murchison-earthquake-survivors-1999 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 31 August 2010, updated 22 April 2015.