Wai-iti River

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Wai-iti River
View south from Bridge # 1500 on New Zealand State Highway 6

View south from Bridge # 1500 on New Zealand State Highway 6
Data
location Tasman Region , South Island (New Zealand) (source in Marlborough Region )
River system Waimea River ( Tasman Bay )
Drain over Waimea River  → Tasman Bay
source on the northwest flank of the Gordon Range in Mount Richmond Forest Park
41 ° 35 ′ 3 ″  S , 172 ° 57 ′ 42 ″  E
Source height approx.  1280  m
confluence north of Brightwater with the Wairoa River to the Waimea River Coordinates: 41 ° 20 ′ 43 ″  E , 173 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E 41 ° 20 ′ 43 ″  S , 173 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E

length 40 km
Communities Wakefield , Brightwater

The Wai-iti River is a river in the Tasman District on the South Island of New Zealand .

geography

The river rises on the northwest flank of the Gordon Range in Mount Richmond Forest Park and initially flows around 10 km in a northerly direction, and then turns away for around 30 km in a northeast direction. It passes the towns of Belgrove , Foxhill , Wai-iti , Spring Grove and flows northwest past Wakefield and Brightwater , before joining west of Richmond with the Wairoa River to form the Waimea River . This flows south of Rabbit Island into Tasman Bay .

The New Zealand State Highway 6 follows a large part of its central reaches of the river .

Web links

Commons : Wai-iti River  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Coordinates and longitudes were partly made using Google Earth Version 7.1.8.3036 on February 2nd, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed February 2, 2018 .