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Story: Limestone country

Devils Boots

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Devils Boots

These limestone outcrops in the Aorere Valley in Golden Bay are so named because they look like the devil’s boots, sticking out of the ground upside down.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, W.T. L Travers Collection

Reference: PAColl-1574-03

by William Thomas Locke Travers

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Paul Williams, Limestone country – Other karst features, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12404/devils-boots (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Williams, published 1 March 2009.