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© Lonely Planet Publications 376 Index A Anakiwa 137 Avalanche Peak Track 216, Abel Tasman Coast Track 2, 18, 146, Anapai Bay 164 220-4, 222-3 148-72, 155, 151 Anapai Bay Track 164 avalanches 191, 278 Abel Tasman Inland Track 193 Anchorstone/Te Puka 317, 322 Awaroa Bay 163 Abel Tasman National Park 32, 193 Andrews Stream 237 accommodation 332-5, see also Angelus Basin 189 B individual locations Angle Knob 124 B&Bs 333 B&Bs 333 animals 25-9, see also individual Backcountry Avalanche Advisory 278 Backcountry Hut Passes 335 species, birds, fish Backcountry Hut Passes 335 backpacker lodges 333 endangered 28 backpacker buses 353 INDEX bivvies 335 introduced 28-9 backpacker lodges 333 camping 332-3 marine 28 backpacks 365 caravan parks 332-3 Aniwaniwa 71 baggage 350 guesthouses 333 Anne River 206 Ball Pass 249, 250 hostels 333 Anne Saddle 206, 210 Balloon Loop 306 hotels 333-4 Anti Crow River 227-8 Ballroom, the 238, 241, 244 huts 334-5 Antimony Mine Track 135 banks 344 motels 333-4 Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park 32, Banks Peninsula 194, 196-200 pubs 333-4 238, 248-56 Banks Peninsula Track 194, activities see fishing, jetboating, Aoraki/Mt Cook Village 255-6 196-200, 198 kayaking, mountain biking Aorere River 169 Banks, Sir Joseph 196 Ada Flat 145 Apollo Creek 180 Barber, the 336 Ada Homestead 210 Arataki 45 Bark Bay 150, 162-3 Ada Pass 206, 209-10 Arawata Bill 259 Barrytown 245-56 Ada River 206, 209-10 Arch Point 163 bats 28 Adams, CW 289 Architect Creek 253 Bay of Many Coves 129, 136 Administration Bay 41 Armstrong Saddle 128 beaches 326 Ahukawakawa Swamp 108 Around-the-Mountain Circuit 102-8 Anapai Bay 164 Ahukawakawa Track 103, 108 Around-the-Mountain Track 90 Anchorage Beach 162 Ailsa Mountains 269 Arthur Creek 178 Big Bungaree Beach 327 air travel 349-52 Arthur Range 178 Big Bush Beach 214 airlines Arthur River 297 Big Hellfire Beach 329 international 349-50 Arthur’s Pass 230 Big Rock Beach 172 domestic carriers 352 Arthur’s Pass Chapel 220 Boulder Beach 319 airports 349-50 Arthur’s Pass National Park 32, 194, Brod Bay 303 Akaroa 197-8 216-37, 217, 222-3 East Ruggedy Beach 328 Akaroa Head 199 Arthur’s Pass village 216, Heaphy Beach 172 Alabaster, Captain 289 218-20, 219 Kaitoke Beach 59 alpine crossings 19 Arthurs Point 286 Koura Beach 172 Alpine Fault, the 184 Atarau 248 Little Bungaree Beach 327 alpine wetas 28 Atene Skyline Walk 128 Little Hellfire Beaches 329 altimeters 367 Atiwhakatu Stream 121, 126 Lucky Beach 327 Ambury Bluff 103 Atlas Creek 180 Magnetic Beach 323 Ambury Monument 103 ATMs 344 Maori Beach 317, 322 amoebic meningitis 361 Auckland 40-1 Mason Beach 330 Amoeboid Mire 306 Auckland volcano field 41 Murray Beach 327 aurora australis 318 Nettle Beach 172 000 Map pages Australasian gannets 27 Ninety Mile Beach 47-53 000 PhotographPhotograph pagespages Automobile Association 354 Onetahuti Beach 163 Avalanche Creek 220-1 Sawyers Beach 327 Index (B-C) 377 Scotts Beach 172, 158 Bobs Ridge 105 C Smoky Beach 327 Bonar Glacier 259, 285 Cameron Stream 232 Twenty Minute Beach 172 books Camp Bay 135-6 Twilight Beach 49-51 children 336 campervans 354-6 Twin Beach 172 environment 24 Camphouse 103, 108 Waiharakeke Bay 163-4 fishing 37 camping 332-3 West End Beach 319 tramping 21, 39-40, 97, 157, backcountry 48, 332-3 West Ruggedy Beach 328 197, 218, 251, 291, 320 backcountry hut ticket 332-3 Bealey River 225 animals & plants 25, 27, 29 DOC camping grounds 333-4 beech 29 Boomerang Slip 103 permits & fees 345 Beehives 107 Bottle Bay 137 Canadian moose 311 beer 340-1 Boulder Bay 43 Cannibal Gorge 206, 208 Beer’s Pool 306 Boulder Stream 127 Canterbury 194-215, 195 bees 362 Bowyers Stream 202-3 Canterbury Plains 194 INDEX Beetham, George 83 Boyle River 206, 210 Cape Brett Lighthouse 64 Bell Rock 297 Boyle River Gorge 211, 234 Cape Brett Track 64 bellbird 26-7 Brady Creek 283 Cape Campbell Walkway 145 bellidifolia 31 Brames Falls 105, 106 Cape Maria van Diemen 47, 51 Bells Falls 106 Brames Falls Track 105 Cape Reinga 38 Ben Lomond Saddle 286 Branches Flat 286 Cape Reinga Walkway 18, 47-53, 50 Ben Lomond Track 286 Breakneck Creek 315 Caples River 268, 269, 269-71 Big Bay 135, 302, 316 Bridge to Nowhere 112, 127 Caples Track 267, 269-71, 267 Big Bush Beach 214 Bridal Veil Falls 263 Caples, Patrick 258, 289 Big River 135, 170 Brod Bay 303 Captain Creek 143 Big Sandhill 317, 330 Broken Axe Pinnacle 124 car travel 354-6 Big Slip 305 Brook Valley 145 caravan Parks 332-3 Billygoat (Atuatumoe) Falls 63 Brook, the 141, 144-5 Carrington, Gerald 228 Billygoat Track 63-4 Brough, Jonathan 175 Carroll, Patrick 230 Binser Saddle 237 Brough’s Tabernacle Lookout Cascade Creek 281 birds 25-8, see also individual species 175, 181 Cascade Falls 163 bird-watching 291 Brown Hut 169 Cascade Saddle 18, 257, 279, 281, 6 Birley, Harry 259 brown kiwi 110 Cascade Saddle Route 276, 278-81, 280 Bishop Burn 310 Brown River 169, 4 Cascade Track 186, 190 Bishops Cap 145 brown trout 34 Casey Saddle-Binser Saddle 237 Black Rock 136 Browning Stream 144, 145 Cass River 234-7 Black Rock Point 327 Bruce’s Bench 213 Cass Saddle 235-7 black shag 27 Brunner, Thomas 165, 184, Cass-Lagoon Saddles Track 234-7, 236 black-backed gull 42 240, 249 Castle Rock 193 Blackball 245 Bull Creek 192 Cattle Flat 277 Blackball Creek 247 Buller River 240 Cave Brook 170 Blackburn Mine 204 Bullock Creek 243 Cave Point Ridge 328 blisters 360 Bunbury, Major 130 caves blue cod 291 Buntings Bush Gully 213 Cave Stream Scenic Reserve 235 Blue Duck Creek 170 bureaux de change 344 Fox River Caves 244 blue ducks 296 Buried Forest 214 Heaphy Track caves 170 Blue Lake 89, 191 Burnt Face 237 Lava Caves 43 blue penguins 26 bush wetas 28 Luxmore Caves 304 Blue Rock Stream 127 Bus Stop Shelter 296 Salisbury Lodge caves 178 Bluff, the 47 Bus Stop, the 204 Seal Cave 199 Bluff/Motu Pohue 322 bus travel 353-4 Water Caves 203 boat travel 352 backpacker buses 353 Whirinaki caves 81 kayaks 133 passes 353 Caves Stream 205 jetboats 111, 112, 115, 127, bush lawyer 74 cave wetas 28 237, 282-3, 285, 313 business hours 335, see also inside cedar, New Zealand 189 water-taxis 354 front cover Cecil Kings Hut 175 378 Index (?-?)(C-E) Cedric Stream 188 Coppermine Saddle 144 dehydration 361 Central Crater 89 Cora Lynn Homestead 237 Demon Trail 300-1 Centre Pass 308 cormorants, see shags Department of Conservation, Chapmans Creek 205 Coromandel Forest Park 38, 59-64 see DOC Charley’s Point 233 Coromandel Peninsula 38, 59-64 didymo 35 children, travel with 336 Coromandel Range 59-64 Dieffenbach, Ernest 99 books 336 Coromandel Walkway 64 Dilemma Creek 241, 242, 244 huts 335 costs 20-1 Divide, the 261, 265, 271 Chilly Stream 215 Cotterell, John 184 Dobson, Arthur 217, 249 Chime Creek 175 Cowshed Bay 136-7 Dobson, Edward 217 Chinamans Bluff 277 Craig, John 311 Dobson, George 217 Chinamans Flat 276, 277 Craigieburn Forest Park 234-7 DOC 18, 339 Chocolate Swamp 330 Crater Lake 83-4 camping grounds 333-4 Christchurch 194, 195-6 Crater Lookout 43 huts 334-5 Christopher River 209-10 Crawford, JC 120 permits & fees 345 INDEX Circle Shelter 214 Crayfish Point 172 track standards 340 Clark, Helen 346 credit cards 344 Docherty, William 289 Clark, John 165 Croesus Battery 247 Dolomite Point 240 Clarke Creek 247 Croesus Knob 247-8 dolphins 28, 51, 194, 197, 199, Clarke Slip 276 Croesus Track 238, 245-8, 246 313, 315 Clarke, Jack 249 Crow Glacier 221-4 Doughboy Bay 328 Cleopatra’s Pool 163 Crow River 179, 220, 224, 227 Douglas, Charles 249 climate 18, 39, 336-9, 337 Crucible Lake 284 Drain Creek 176 Clinton River 294, 297, 153 cuckoos, long-tailed 115 Dredge Flat 277 clothing 363-8 Cupola Creek 187 Driftwood 140 Clough Cableway 228 Curtis Falls Track 107 drinking age 332 Coal Creek 303 Curzon Glacier 277 drinks 339-42 Coast to Coast 225 customs 339 alcoholic 211, 340-1 Coastal Track 42-3 cycling, see mountain biking water 342, 357, 359-60 cod, blue 291 driving licences 354 Codfish Island 329 D du Fresne, Marion 99 Coffins Creek 58 D’Urville Island 130 Duck Creek 330 Cold Creek 172 D’Urville River 192 ducks, blue 296 Colenso, Reverend William 115 D’Urville Valley Track 146, 190-3 Dudley Knob 225 Collingwood 167 d’Urville, Jules Dumont 130, 149 Dudleigh Falls 297 compasses 366 Daleys Flat 277 Duke Knob 203 Comte de Paris 197 Dan’s Paddock 278 Dun Mountain Railway 144 Cone Saddle 126-7 Dancing Camp Dam 59, 60, 63 Dun Mountain Track 140, 144 Cone Saddle Track 126-7 dangers see hazards Dun Saddle 144 Conical Hill 264 Darran Mountains 265, 298, 299 Duncan Bay 140 conservation 33, 78, 165, see also Dart Glacier 274, 276, 277, 278, 281 Dusky Sound 288-9, 306 environment Dart River 258, 274-8, 281 Dusky Track 287, 306-11, 308-9 consulates 339 Dashwood Stream 308 Cook Memorial 134 Davies Bay 137 E Cook, Captain James 47, 59, 99, 130, Dawn’s Creek 214 134, 196, 289, 311, 318 Dawson Falls 103, 105, 107 Earland Falls 265 cooking 342 Dawson Falls Summit 107 earthquakes Copland Pass 248, 249, 250 daylight-saving time 346 Murchison 180 Copland River 253 Dead Horse Gully 211 East Matukituki valley 285 Copland River Gorge 254 Deadman’s Track 264 Eatwells Lookout 136, 137 Copland Track 238, 251 Deadmans Ridge 117, 119 edelweiss, New Zealand 250, 259 Deadwood Creek 309 Edwin Burn Viaduct 315 000 MapMap pagespages debit cards 344 Egmont National Park 32, 96, 99-109 000 PhotographPhotograph pagespages Deception Creek 170 Egmont Steps 105 Deception River 224-6 electricity 332 Index (E-G) 379 embassies 339 Greenstone River 265-6, 271 Freshwater Valley 330 Emerald Lakes 84, 89-90 Lake Alabaster 300 Furneaux Lodge 129, 135 Emerald Pool 129, 143, 204 Lake Waikaremoana
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