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Ranges and basins

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Ranges and basins
Faulting has forged the alternating ranges and basins of Central Otago. The line of the Dunstan fault can be seen in this image, extending along the line of the Dunstan Mountains. The snowcapped Hawkdun Range, separating North from Central Otago, is in the background.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – Geology and landscape, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22609/ranges-and-basins (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.