From 1773 to 1842 there has been documentation of sightings of scattered members of the so called Lost Tribe in Fiordland.
These where members of the Ngati Mamoe and Waitaha in exile assimilation by the Kai Tahu Tribe lived in secret places of the Shadowlands that is now Fiordland National Park.
Artifacts and stories about human remains, foot prints and the voices of the Glasinoch persisted into the early 20th Century even sparking a Novel and a Motion Picture.
Most probably the end of the story happened at the headwaters of the Wild Natives River where a skirmish with the Ngai Tahu took place near a lake at the headwaters of the Taheke Stream deep in what is now called Wapiti Country.
In later years artifacts where found in rock shelters in the area.
Sadly the only images of this time are from the imagination of folkore and artists.
Dry Shelter in on the Western Side of Worsley Pass.
Overlooking the Wild Natives river catchment.
The Pisgah Rock Bivouac is a classic bush bivvy up the Doon River Valley just below the Pisgah Stream Junction Between the Murchison Mountains and the Stuart Mountains of Lake Te Anau. Mount Pisgah was so named after a biblical mountain from which Moses was said to have seen the promise land.
The Pisgah Shelter is some 6 kms North North West of The Junction Burn Hut at the South West Arm of the Middle Fiord of Lake Te Anau.
GILL'S ROCK BIVOUAC LAKE ADELAIDE FIORDLAND
In the Scrub at the western end of Lake Adelaide high in the Darran Mountains is a legendary rock shelter under a large stone slab called Gill's Bivvy.... It is well off the tourist trail but is known the more adventure inclined.. Not to be confused with Phil's Bivvy higher up the slopes of Barrier Knob.
*As listed on NZGB maps
This was the original Te Anau Day Trip destination before the discovery of the Te Anau Glow Worm Caves, Thanks to Wilson Campbell and Company. Fiordland Explorers. That involved a short Boat Trip on the Larger of the Hidden Lakes and a spectacular View Point and a pick up at Mussel Cove.
So called because of Toni Ciaffoni an engineer on the Fiordland Trails Trust.
Also an important construction access point for the lake-shore cycle trail construction.
and fishermen's vehicle track.
