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Tors on the Rock and Pillar Range

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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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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – Geology and landscape, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22621/tors-on-the-rock-and-pillar-range (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.