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Sutton Salt Lake

Sutton Salt Lake is New Zealand's only inland salt lake with water about half as salty as sea water. With no outlet, and only filled by rainwater, Sutton Salt L...
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Sutton Salt Lake is New Zealand's only inland salt lake with water about half as salty as sea water. With no outlet, and only filled by rainwater, Sutton Salt Lake has concentrated salts from surrounding soils as it repeatedly fills, evaporates and refills. Nestled amongst tussocks, grassland and the spectacular parallel rock tor ridges of Sutton, with a backdrop of the Rock and Pillar Range, the lake (approximately 8 ha) occupies an enclosed shallow basin in the schist rock landscape. Taken in late summer, the lake had more or less evaporated as is normal for most summers, leaving the lake bed exposed.

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