The title of the series 'Latitude 45°South' is a reference to the line that puts New Zealand midway between the South Pole and the Equator. The first episode explores from the East Coast of the South Island north of Oamaru, to Dansey's Pass.
Of all the landscapes along Latitude 45, the plains and downland of North Otago are the most drastically altered by humans. The land is left as a visual history of those who have gone before.
