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Story: Perceptions of the landscape

Lake Coleridge Station

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Lake Coleridge Station

This watercolour, done by Charles Barraud in 1870, gives a striking impression of the sense of spaciousness and isolation that many settlers felt. Lake Coleridge, in the Canterbury high country, is near the station where Lady Barker wrote of ‘solitude so intense’.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: D-022-007

by Charles Decimus Barraud

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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Jock Phillips, Perceptions of the landscape – European settlement, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/14389/lake-coleridge-station (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.