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Poor Pete’s Hut, Thousand Acres Plateau

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Poor Pete’s Hut, Thousand Acres Plateau

Poor Pete’s Hut on Thousand Acres Plateau offered very basic shelter. It was replaced by a new structure on the edge of the plateau, near Murchison in the South Island.

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Carl Walrond, Tramping – Tracks and huts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10356/poor-petes-hut-thousand-acres-plateau (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 July 2015.