Port Pegasus/Pikihatiti – historic tin mining site maintenance
March 2025: Volunteer at Port Pegasus/Pikihatiti maintaining historical sites in the area.
Project number: 21
Location: Port Pegasus, Stewart Island/Rakiura
Dates
2 volunteers for 10 days
March 2025 (exact dates to be confirmed in December)
Description
This activity is situated in a remote area of the Rakiura National Park on Stewart Island/Rakiura and involves maintaining many historical sites associated with tin mining in the area during the late 1800s.
Tasks will include track clearance, re-digging drains, pulling seedlings in a significant area of ground sluiced tailings, restoration work on the hydraulic sluicing guns and historic site monitoring.
What to expect
Fitness/skill level
Very high fitness level. Volunteers must have a current first aid certificate. This activity involves a minimum of 3 hours tramping every day. The work being undertaken is very arduous and volunteers must be comfortable doing physical activity for 8 hours per day.
Accommodation
Will be confirmed with the successful applicants.
Pickup/drop-off location and times
Volunteers will meet outside the Stewart Island Experience Visitor Terminal in Bluff at 8.30 am, where they will be collected by either the DOC Southern Winds vessel or the Hananui vessel. Volunteers will be returned to Bluff after 2.00 pm on the final day.
Contribution towards food and transport
$350 per person.
How to apply
Full details on volunteer programme and how to apply.
Contact
For questions or other volunteer opportunities in the area, contact:
Southland and Otago Volunteer Coordinator
Murihiku / Invercargill Office
Phone: 0800 275 362
Fax: +64 4 471 1117
Email: [email protected]
Address: 7th Floor, CUE on Don, 33 Don Street, Invercargill 9810
Postal Address: PO Box 743, Invercargill 9840
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