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English: We left Queenstown to make our way to Milford Sounds. Stopped in Te Anau for morning tea and to buy some lunch for our day trip. We we will be staying at Te Anau for the night.
Waiting to go through the Homer Tunnel day five of our fast trip around the South Island with my friends from the UK. November 5, 2013 New Zealand. The Homer Tunnel is a 1.2km (0.75 miles) long road tunnel in the Fiordland region of the South Island of New Zealand, opened in 1954. New Zealand State Highway 94 passes through the tunnel, linking Milford Sound to Te Anau and Queenstown, by piercing the Darran Mountain range at the Homer Saddle. It connects between the valley of the Hollyford River to the east and that of the Cleddau to the west. The tunnel is straight and was originally single-lane and gravel-surfaced. The tunnel walls remain unlined granite. The east portal end is at 945 m elevation; the tunnel runs 1270 m at approximately a 1:10 gradient down to the western portal. Until it was sealed and enlarged it was the longest gravel-surfaced tunnel in the world. William H. Homer and George Barber discovered the Homer Saddle on 27 January 1889. Homer suggested that a tunnel through the saddle would provide access to the Milford area. Government workers began the tunnel in 1935 after lobbying by J. Cockburn of the Southland Progress League,[citation needed] and the completion of at least a rough road to the eastern portal site in the same year. The tunnel and the associated Milford Road were built by relief workers during the Depression, initially just starting with five men using picks and wheelbarrows. The men had to live in tents in a mountainous area where there might be no direct sunlight for half of the year. At least three were killed by avalanches over the coming decades. Progress was slow, with difficult conditions including fractures in the rock bringing water from snow melt into the tunnel. Compressors and a powerhouse in the nearby river were eventually built to pump out 40,000 litres of water per hour. Work was also interrupted by World War II (though the actual piercing of the mountain had successfully been achieved in 1940), and an avalanche in 1945 which destroyed the eastern tunnel portal. These problems delayed the tunnel's completion and opening until 1954. |
Date | 6 November 2013, 12:26:03 (according to Exif data) |
Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/joceykinghorn/11165456955/ |
Author | Jocelyn Kinghorn |
Camera location | 44° 45′ 51.84″ S, 167° 59′ 24.8″ E ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
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Camera model | PENTAX K10D |
Exposure time | 1/125 sec (0.008) |
F-number | f/6.7 |
ISO speed rating | 100 |
Date and time of data generation | 12:26, 6 November 2013 |
Lens focal length | 18 mm |
Horizontal resolution | 240 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 240 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 17:05, 2 December 2013 |
Exposure Program | Normal program |
Exif version | 2.3 |
Date and time of digitizing | 12:26, 6 November 2013 |
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APEX aperture | 5.488322 |
APEX exposure bias | 0 |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Sensing method | One-chip color area sensor |
Custom image processing | Normal process |
Exposure mode | Auto exposure |
White balance | Auto white balance |
Focal length in 35 mm film | 27 mm |
Scene capture type | Standard |
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Saturation | High saturation |
Sharpness | Normal |
Subject distance range | Distant view |
Lens used | TAMRON XR DiII 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 |
Date metadata was last modified | 06:05, 3 December 2013 |
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