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North toward Hanmer Springs township and mountains. Many thanks to Select Braemar Lodge

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Hanmer Springs (often misspelled and mis-pronounced Hamner Springs) is a small town in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is located inland, 65 kilometres southwest from Kaikoura, on a minor road 10 kilometres north of State Highway 7, the northern route between Christchurch and the West Coast via Lewis Pass. Hanmer Springs is in the Hurunui District. The town is built around a popular hot spring which was discovered in the late 19th century. According to the 2006 census the usually-resident population is 729. The town's other main claim to fame, the South Island's leading rehabilitation centre for sufferers of drug addiction, Queen Mary Hospital, was controversially closed in 2003. A protracted battle over the protection of the building and surrounding arboretum ensured. The premises reopened as a luxury spa in 2007. There are two skifields in the area, Hanmer Springs Skifield and Mount Lyford. Hanmer Springs is a popular tourist destination, and the ... Read more about Hanmer Springs on Wikipedia

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