Pine stump and ammunition magazine, Belmont hills

The Belmont range, north of Wellington, is a surreal landscape of rolling hills, deep gullies, sweeping grasslands, and thick forest. Twisted tree stumps, power pylons and ammunition magazines dot the hills. It is a country of bright sun, big sky, and blasting winds.

The magazines were built in World War Two to hold ammunition and explosives for homeland defence and New Zealand forces fighting the Japanese in the South Pacific. Now they lie abandoned to the elements and farm animals.

Here are two more images of these ruins and their landscape:

Abandoned ammunition magazines, Belmont hills, mid-morning

Sunrise, Belmont hills