Did
beavers once live in the South?
By Mark Price
Were the Upper Clutha lakes once home to beaver?
Wanaka historian Richie Hewitt has drawn together all the known accounts of
beaver and otter sightings over the last 240 years and does not discount the
possibility an animal of that sort lived in the South, or still does. Mark
Price reports.In 1844 Maori chief Jack Rakiraki helped surveyor John Barnicoat
draw a map in his journal showing the ''great lagoons'' at the head of the
Clutha River - Wakatipi, Awia and Wanuk.The map is confusing in that it shows
Awia as about the shape and in the location of Lake Wanaka and Wanuk likewise
for Lake Hawea.
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