The Lammermoor Range is a range of rugged hills in

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, in southern

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Geography

The range runs for approximately 30 kilometres northeast from the Lammerlaw Range before reaching the Sutton Stream which drains the saddle between it and the southern end of the Rock and Pillar Range and that flows to the east and into the

Strath Taieri The Strath Taieri (sometimes spelt Strath-Taieri) is a large glacial valley and river plateau in New Zealand's South Island. It is surrounded by the rugged hill ranges to the north and west of Otago Harbour. Since 1989 it has been part of the cit ...

valley near Sutton Salt Lake, southwest of

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. The south east flank of the range is drained by Deep Stream a tributary of the

Taieri River The Taieri River (a misspelling of the original Māori name ''Taiari'' ) is the fourth-longest river in New Zealand and is in Otago in the South Island. Rising in the Lammerlaw Range, it initially flows north, then east around the Rock and Pill ...

. The upper reaches of the Taieri River also drain the north western flank of the range. The highest point of the range is towards its south and called Lammermoor at . The parts of the range from about Ailsa Craig east are in Te Papanui Conservation Park.

Peaks

, - , Ailsa Craig , , , ,

Naming

The range was named for the

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in south east Scotland, possibly influenced by the spelling of

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's novel ''

The Bride of Lammermoor ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first editio ...

'', which is set in those hills.

Environment

The Lammermoor Range was the designated site for

Project Hayes Project Hayes was a controversial wind farm proposed for the Lammermoor Range of Otago, New Zealand. The project was developed by Meridian Energy from 2006 to 2012 at a cost of $8.9 million. It had a proposed capacity of up to 630MW, at the tim ...

, a giant controversial

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proposal which was abandoned in 2012. The range is one of only two sites where the Nationally Endangered Burgan skink has previously been found.

References

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