Dangerous wind chills are in the forecast. Frostbite on exposed skin can occur in as little as 10 minutes. Save yourself the trouble and stay out of the cold wind.
Lloyd Esler12:00, Jul 20 2021
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Lake Hauroko, once part of Fiord County, from the lookout point
During the early 19th Century the south’s fiords were well explored and charted, the anomalies left by early expeditions were amended and the gaps filled in. Not so the interior of Fiordland, where towering snow-topped peaks and deep gloomy valleys, cirques, aretes, cataracts, torrents, precipices, vulgar weather and huge rainfall made exploration unappealing for all but the sturdiest. This large unknown and uninhabited corner of the South Island became Fiord County in 1876. It was roughly the land west of a boundary which zig-zagged between way points which began in the south at Sandhill Point.