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Tors on the Rock and Pillar Range

Tors on the Rock and Pillar Range

The Rock and Pillar Range is topped with distinctive tors (foreground) – schist outcrops which have weathered less rapidly than the surrounding rocks. This view looks east across the Strath Taieri basin.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Photograph by Jock Phillips

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Malcolm McKinnon. 'Otago region', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 25-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/otago-region/2/5