Story: West Coast places
The fertile river flats of the Karamea valley provided good farmland for the early settlers in the 1870s. The present urban area, in the centre of the photograph, consists of two settlements along the main road: Karamea closest to the coast and Market Cross further away.
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GNS Science
Reference: 1757/16
Photograph by Lloyd Homer
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