Blue Duck Flat
Blue Duck Flat is a plain in Westland District, West Coast.Places of Interest
Highlights include Haast Pass and Fantail Falls.
Haast Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Dschwen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Haast Pass / Tioripatea is a mountain pass in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand. Māori used the pass in pre-European times. The pass takes its name from Julius von Haast, a 19th-century explorer who also served as provincial geologist for the provincial government of Canterbury. Haast Pass is situated 2½ km southwest of Blue Duck Flat.
Fantail Falls
Waterfall
Photo: William M. Connolley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fantail Falls is a waterfall in Mount Aspiring National Park, Westland District, New Zealand. The waterfall is in the Haast Pass, between the Gates of Haast and the pass itself, at an altitude of 450 metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pleasant Flat.
Pleasant Flat
Locality
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
Pleasant Flat is an alluvial floodplain of the Haast River in the Haast Pass on New Zealand's South Island. A former stopping place for travellers crossing the pass before the building of the highway, it now has a campsite and picnic shelter. Pleasant Flat is situated 9 km north of Blue Duck Flat.
Blue Duck Flat
- Type: Plain
- Description: flat area north of Haast Pass / Tioripatea, New Zealand
- Categories: flat and landform
- Location: Westland District, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
“Blue Duck Flat” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Blue Duck Flat”
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Highlights include Topsy Falls and Serrate Spur.
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