For the community in Scotland, see Abbey St Bathans.
Historic town center
St Bathans, formerly named Dunstan Creek,[1] is a former gold and coal mining town in Central Otago, New Zealand. The settlement was a centre of the Otago Gold Rush, but mining has since long ceased. It is now largely a holiday retreat due to the preservation of many of its historic buildings.
St Bathans is well known for Blue Lake, a small man-made lake created by gold-sluicing that transformed the 120-metre high Kildare Hill into a 168-metre deep pit. After mining stopped in 1934, the hole accumulated water, which turned a distinctive blue hue due to minerals from the surrounding rocks.[2] It is currently a camping spot, and swimming is allowed in the lake.
The town was named for the Scottish Borders village of Abbey St Bathans by early surveyor John Turnbull Thomson; the Scottish village was the birthplace of Thomson's maternal grandfather. It is 40 kilometres northwest of Ranfurly and 60 kilometres northeast of Alexandra, near the Dunstan Creek, beneath the St Bathans Range and Dunstan mountains.
The area attracts many visitors intent on gold-prospecting.
^Reed, A.W. (1975) Place names of New Zealand. Wellington: A.H. & A.W. Reed. p. 371
^"St Bathans | Central Otago, New Zealand". www.newzealand.com. Retrieved 2022-07-31.
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evolved in the mainland, while SaintBathans Fauna mystacine fossils co-existed with another terrestrial mammal, the SaintBathans mammal. Some plants have...
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and temporal factors. The earliest moa remains come from the Miocene SaintBathans Fauna. Known from multiple eggshells and hind limb elements, these represent...
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Icarops. Several fossil species are also known from the contemporary SaintBathans Fauna in New Zealand. The oldest unambiguous fossils of the living genus...
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been named so far. The species are all known from the early Miocene SaintBathans Fauna from the Lower Bannockburn Formation in Otago in New Zealand....
at Abbey St Bathans in the Scottish Borders. His father, originally referred to as John Turnbull of Duns, had purchased Abbey St Bathans House from John...
evolution of both groups into modern representatives. The early Miocene SaintBathans Fauna is the only Cenozoic terrestrial fossil record of the landmass...
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South America. A species of sphenodontine is known from the Miocene SaintBathans Fauna. Whether it is referable to Sphenodon proper is not entirely clear...
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of New Zealand. It does not include introduced species, nor extinct SaintBathans fauna. There are around 51 native mammal species in New Zealand, of...
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