Driving SH6 from Newton Flat to Lyell in the Buller Gorge | West Coast | Tasman | New Zealand | 4K

Categories: Tasman Region

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Driving SH6 starting at Newton Flat in the Tasman Region, and finishing in Lyell in the West Coast Region of New Zealand's South Island.

Lyell is the name of a historic gold mining town in the Buller Gorge, on State Highway 6. Lyell was named by the geologist Julius von Haast after the British geologist Charles Lyell, who was a friend of Sir George Grey, in whose writings had influence on Charles Darwin.

Newton Flat is a small settlement also on SH6 in the Buller Gorge.