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 | | Situated at the junction of Highways 8 and 85, Alexandra owed its establishment to the discovery of gold from the Clutha river and environs. |
 | | It was Originally known as Lower Junction, the town was a sattelite town to Clyde, which had the administration for the Dunstan Goldfields. |
 | | In the early days Cromwell was known as "The Junction" as it is situated at the junction of the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers with a landscape consisting of bare rocky hills, and mountains, with tussock, briar and wild thyme as vegetation. |
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