Te Anau southern tourist hub
Te Anau, population 2600, is the hub for all tourist attractions within Fiordland. These include Milford Sound with its fabulous Mitre Peak, Hollyford and Eglington Vai-
leys, Doubtful Sound, Te Anau glow-worm caves and the world-famous Milford Track. Winter is an ideal time to visit the year-round holiday resort because it
is only then that one can experience the splendour of Fiordland’s snow-cap-ped mountains. The lake, 344 sq km, is the largest in the South Island. Launches take visitors
through its intricate “inland fiords,” past shores that once gave shelter to the long-vanished moa and Ngati-Mamoe tribe. One of the most notable trips travels to the glow worms caves, rediscovered in 1948, the same year as the takahe was found, nearby.
No visit to Te Anau is complete without a launch excursion to the Te Anauau “cave . of rushing waters.” The atmosphere in the caves is awe-in-spiring, with thundering waterfalls and cathedrallike limestone formations, climaxed by the qujetly b e a u t i f u 1 glow-worm grotto. ' <
An excellent- range and standard s * i accommodation • available in T 9 Anau.- . Roads in the arek are £ sealed highways. Air services to and from Te Anau are operated by Mount Cook Airlines.
The Milford end of the Homer Tunnel—a picture taken before the road was sealed.
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Press, 16 July 1980, Page 31
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