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References
- ↑ "Place name detail: Pukewao". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board . Retrieved 15 November 2007.
- ↑ David Leitch and Brian Scott, Exploring New Zealand's Ghost Railways, revised edition (Wellington: Grantham House, 1998 [1995]), 125-6.
Coordinates: 46°33′07″S168°53′16″E / 46.55193°S 168.8879°E
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