St Bathans is a near-deserted gold town in the Manuherikia valley of Central Otago, where around 2,000 miners once worked the diggings first known as Dunstan Creek. From 1864 they sluiced their way clean through the 120-metre Kildare Hill, leaving the deep pit that filled to become the startling Blue Lake after mining stopped in 1934. The mud-brick Vulcan Hotel of 1882 still pours a beer on the old main street, reputedly haunted, and the few surviving heritage buildings make the hamlet one of Otago's most photographed.
St Bathans is a near-deserted gold town in the Manuherikia valley of Central Otago, where around 2,000 miners once worked the diggings first known as Dunstan Creek. From 1864 they sluiced their way clean through the 120-metre Kildare Hill, leaving the deep pit that filled to become the startling Blue Lake after mining stopped in 1934. The mud-brick Vulcan Hotel of 1882 still pours a beer on the old main street, reputedly haunted, and the few surviving heritage buildings make the hamlet one of Otago's most photographed.
St Bathans is in the Otago region of New Zealand.
St Bathans has an estimated population of around 10 (Stats NZ estimate).
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