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Lake Dunstan and vineyards

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Lake Dunstan and vineyards

Lake Dunstan, on the Clutha River, provides irrigation water for the new vineyards that are now a feature of the Central Otago landscape.

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Allan Gillingham, Soils and regional land use – Eastern and southern South Island, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17112/lake-dunstan-and-vineyards (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Allan Gillingham, published 1 March 2009.