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For the first 31 km of the road, SH 80 runs in a northerly direction parallel with the banks of Lake Pukaki to the right and the Mackenzie Basin to the left.
Of the two New Zealand Phaulacridium grasshoppers, Phaulacridium otagoense is endemic to the South Island (Mackenzie Basin and Central Otago).
From here the route tends westward and rapidly increases in altitude, passing the southern end of the two great Mackenzie Basin lakes of Tekapo and Pukaki.