Hokonui Hills

This article will address the topic of Hokonui Hills, which has sparked widespread interest and debate in various areas. Hokonui Hills is a concept that has gained relevance in recent years and that has generated great curiosity in today's society. Along these lines, the different edges and perspectives surrounding Hokonui Hills will be explored, as well as its impact in different contexts and situations. Both its positive and negative aspects will be analyzed, in order to offer a complete and balanced vision of this topic. In addition, opinions from experts in the field will be presented and specific cases that exemplify the importance of Hokonui Hills today will be examined.

For the electorate, see Hokonui (New Zealand electorate).

Satellite image of the southern part of the Southland Region. The Hokonui Hills are the dark area to the right of centre in the upper part of the image. The diagonal line of the Southland Syncline can clearly be seen stretching from them to the coast.

The Hokonui Hills, also known as The Hokonui Mountains or simply The Hokonui, are a range of hills in central Southland, New Zealand. They rise to 600 metres above the surrounding Southland Plains, of which the hills mark a northern extremity.

The Hokonui forms part of the Southland Syncline, a geological fold system which extends northwestward from the coast at The Catlins. Owing to the transform fault which forms the Southern Alps, the westernmost part of the syncline has been transported several hundred kilometres to the north; this western section includes many of the hills within the Kahurangi National Park in the northwest of the South Island.

The Hokonui Hills also splits the Southland Plains in two - to the north and east lies the broad floodplain of the Mataura River, and to the south and west lie the plains of the Aparima and Ōreti Rivers. The Ōreti's major tributary, the Makarewa River, rises in the south of the Hokonui Hills.

The hills lie within a triangle formed by the towns of Gore to the east, Lumsden to the north, and Winton to the southwest, and cover approximately 1,200 km².

Hokonui moonshine

During the nineteenth century, the region gained a reputation for the production of illicit alcohol known as Hokonui moonshine. The association between the region and illicit alcohol lasted until the 1930s and has passed into New Zealand folklore. The Hokonui Moonshiner Museum in Gore celebrates the "colourful history of illicit whiskey making and consumption".

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References

  1. ^ "Moonshine: Illicit stills in Southland", 10 June 1926, Press
  2. ^ Hokonui Moonshiners Museum, Gore District Council
  3. ^ "Old Hokonui", original label, National Library of New Zealand
  4. ^ "Illicit Whisky Still", 1934, Auckland Star

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