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Ben Ohau Range is a mountain range in

Canterbury Region Canterbury () is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island. The region covers an area of , making it the largest region in the country by area. It is home to a population of The region in its current form was estab ...

South Island The South Island ( , 'the waters of Pounamu, Greenstone') is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand by surface area, the others being the smaller but more populous North Island and Stewart Island. It is bordered to the north by ...

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

. It lies west of

Lake Pukaki Lake Pukaki () is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on New Zealand's South Island. The others are Lakes Tekapo and Ōhau. All three lakes were formed when the ...

, at and east of the Dobson river and

Lake Ōhau Lake Ōhau is a lake in the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand. The Hopkins River, New Zealand, Hopkins and Dobson River, New Zealand, Dobson rivers fed into the northern end of Lake Ōhau. These rivers have their headwaters in ...

. The Ben Ohau range is dominated at the southern end by

Ben Ohau Ben Ohau Range is a mountain range in Canterbury, New Zealand, Canterbury Region, South Island, New Zealand. It lies west of Lake Pukaki, at and east of the Dobson River (New Zealand), Dobson river and Lake Ōhau. The Ben Ohau range is domin ...

(1522m). Other mountains in the range include Backbone Peak (2263m), MacKenzies Peak (2200m), Glentanner Peak (2551m), Dun Fiunary (2550m), Ferintosh Peak (2497m), Mauka Atua (2557m), Kai Tarau (2542m), and Mt Dark (2496m). At the northern end Mt Cran stands at 2444m, Jamieson Saddle at 2183m and Mt Edgar Thomson at 2379m.

Biodiversity

The moth species '' Ichneutica agorastis'' is particularly common at a string mires found in the Ben Ohau Range.

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Photo of Ben Ohau Range
Mountain ranges of the Canterbury Region {{CanterburyNZ-geo-stub