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Arcadia

When wealthy young Englishman Joseph Cyprian Fenn fled England and his family to this remote valley in far-flung South Island New Zealand in 1881 he purchased 600 acres of land and named his property Arcadia. Arcadia is a Greek word literally translating to paradise. Today the valley carries this name and the farm borders what is now Mount Aspiring National Park. Access to the Park is a gravel road through the farm a few miles further from this point.

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Uploaded on November 14, 2020
Taken on October 20, 2020