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On Skippers Saddle. Mount Aurum at centre image

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Mount Aurum Homestead, Skippers Township

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Mount Aurum Homestead, Skippers Township

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Mount Aurum Homestead, Skippers Township. "This Historic House was built in 1867 and is one of the only two remaining wooden buildings on the Reserve".

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Skippers Township

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Skippers Point School - the classroom

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Skippers Point School - the classroom

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Skippers Point School, Skippers Township. The Upper Shotover Public School, later known as Skippers Point School, was open between 1879 and 1927.

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Skippers Point School, Skippers Township.

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Skippers Point Cemetery

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Skippers Point Cemetery

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Johnston's Otago Hotel ruins, Skippers Township

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Johnston's Otago Hotel ruins, Skippers Township

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Skippers Canyon

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Skippers Creek powerhouse, part of the Mount Aurum Homestead power scheme, operating in the 1930s

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The generator in the Skippers Creek powerhouse

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Skippers Creek powerhouse

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Skippers Creek powerhouse

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Skippers Creek dam, part of the Mount Aurum Homestead power scheme, operating in the 1930s

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Skippers Creek dam

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Russell lupin (Lupinus polyphyllus) in Skippers Creek

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Skippers Creek and Mount Aurum

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Skippers Creek panorama, looking into the Left Branch (left), the Right Branch (centre) and the Roaring Meg (right). Prince of Wales is at centre image

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Russell lupin (Lupinus polyphyllus) in Skippers Creek Right Branch. Mount Aurum and Prince of Wales are in the background.

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Bullendale historic site

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Bullendale historic site

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Bullendale historic site

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Phoenix Battery rock breaker, Bullendale. Bullendale Hut is in the top right corner

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Bullendale Hut

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Bullendale Hut and Mount Aurum

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Caspers Flat and Mount Aurum, Skippers Creek Right Branch

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Wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). Caspers Flat, Skippers Creek Right Branch

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Wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). Caspers Flat, Skippers Creek Right Branch

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Wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). Caspers Flat, Skippers Creek Right Branch

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Bullendale Hut, Skippers Creek Right Branch

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Trailing grass tree (Dracophyllum pronum). Skippers Creek Right Branch

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Hollow-leaved hebe (Veronica buchananii). Skippers Creek Right Branch.

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Hollow-leaved hebe (Veronica buchananii). Skippers Creek Right Branch.

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Mount Aurum route topo from the ridge east of Dandys Saddle. Ascent route on the right; descent route on the left. The more direct line below the summit looks steep from below, but is actually fine when viewed from above

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Mount Aurum from the ridge just east of Dandys Saddle

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The best route from Skippers Creek Right Branch into the Left Branch follows a tussock spur to Pt 1475m, not the eroding creek bed below. A marker pole at the bottom of the spur indicates where the route leaves the valley floor

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The Remarkables from Prince of Wales. Double Cone at centre image

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View from Prince of Wales. From left to right are Mt Aspiring / Tititea, Rob Roy Peak (in front of Aspiring), Mt Repulse, Unnamed Pt 2108m, Craigroyston Peak (snow covered), Sharks Tooth Peak, Fog Peak. In the back between Pt 2108m and Craigroyston are Fastness Peak and Pickelhaube

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View into Skippers Creek Right Branch from Prince of Wales. The Remarkables and Double Cone are on the skyline at centre image

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Eroding terrain under Prince of Wales at the head of Skippers Creek Right Branch

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Prince of Wales from the west

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On Dandys Saddle, between Mount Aurum and Prince of Wales

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