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SOUTHLAND DUO

FORKS HUT, Mavora Lakes Conservation Park

Lurking between the glacier-carved Livingston and Thomson mountains are two shallow depressions left behind after the last Ice Age. Now filled with meltwater, they form the North and South Mavora lakes.

The landscape is an amazing blend of beech forest and tussock grassland, with a vast and beautiful camping area along the edge of South Mavora Lake and another at the south end of North Mavora Lake.

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