[6] It is possibly the largest such area in Australasia and is dominated by grasses, sedges and mosses, with shallow pools, small islands and clumps of low vegetation.

[7] Cardamine bilobata (bittercress), Neomyrtus pedunculata (rōhutu) and Veronica rigidula (hebe) are Nationally Critical species growing in the area.

[8] The mountains around the valley are mostly undifferentiated volcaniclastic sandstone and siltstone of the Caples terrane, dating from Permian-Triassic times, around 250 years ago.

[14] Donald Angus Cameron (1835-1918)[15] left Scotland in 1854, worked at Penola,[16] sailed from Melbourne to Dunedin in 1859,[17] took his sheep to the Nokomai valley that[18] and the following year[19] and named it after Glenfalloch (hidden glen), near his Inverness birthplace.

The 47 km (29 mi) race from Roaring Lion Creek in the Garvie mountains, to the north, took 3 years to cut.

[30] In 1932 The Nokomai Gold Mining Coy Ltd was floated, with capital of over £60,000 and a 150 ton, 50 ft (15 m)-high, dragline excavator was assembled.

[36] A 1924 report claimed that during the gold rushes Nokomai township had over 2,000 people, but by 1924 Glenfalloch's stone homestead stood alone.

The teacher, Henry Thurston Evans, set up the Nokomai Weekly Herald,[20] which was hand-written on 4 pages of small post folio.

[3] It was west of the Slate Range, in the Mataura valley,[48] 72 mi 74 ch (117.4 km) from Invercargill, opened about July 1881 and closed to passengers on 4 October 1937 and completely on 25 November 1979.