Hanmer Springs
Hanmer Springs
is a
town
in the
Canterbury
region of the
South Island
of
New Zealand
. It is located inland, 65 kilometres southwest from
Kaikoura
, on a minor road 10 kilometres north of
State Highway 7
, the northern route betweeen
Christchurch
and the
West Coast
via
Lewis Pass
. The town is built around a popular
hot spring
which was discovered in the late
1800s
. The
2001
census gave a population of 663. The town's other main claim to fame, the
South Island
's leading
rehabilitation
centre for sufferers of
drug addiction
, St. Mary's Hospital, was controversially closed in
2003
.
As of 2004
, a protracted battle over the protection of the building and surrounding park is still in progress. There are two
skifields
in the area, Hanmer Springs Skifield and
Mount Lyford
.
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