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Which annual event, held since 1934 at a remote Central Otago pub now known as the Cardrona Hotel, sees thousands gather for a day of bra-burning, live music, and the consumption of a distinctive local liqueur?

The Cardrona Bra Fence began as a spontaneous act when four bras were left on a rural fence in 1999; it grew into a tourist attraction and annual gathering that divided opinion but became an iconic, quirky roadside spectacle.

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