St Bathans is an old gold mining town in New Zealand, and with a population these days of only seven (or five) it is often referred to as a ghost town.
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This map only tells you one side of the story though – there are many reasons that people don't live in these areas, including important ecological habitats in our national parks, mountainous terrain that is difficult to build upon and extensive farmland areas, which are used for food production.
Whatever the reason, Coromandel – rivalled only by Nelson – was Hippy Central for New Zealand. And while most of the residents of the communes in the 1960s and 1970s spent the 1980s turning on and tuning in to the stock market, there are still real hippies living, feral and shy, in and around Coromandel.