- The
Wakamarina River is a
river of the
Marlborough Region of New Zealand's
South Island. It
flows generally northeast from its
origins in the Richmond...
- Gold on the West
Coast from Te Ara,
Encyclopaedia of New
Zealand The
Wakamarina and West
Coast Gold
Rushes from the 1966
Encyclopaedia of New Zealand...
- 173.750°E / -41.267; 173.750
Length 40 km (25 mi) Basin features
Tributaries • left
Tinline River, Rai
River • right
Rainy River,
Wakamarina River...
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River Opouri River Tunakino River Ronga River Rainy River Tinline River Wakamarina River Waiau Toa /
Clarence River Acheron River Guide River Saxton River...
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south of New
Zealand never rose to such
relative prominence again. The
Wakamarina River in
Marlborough proved to have gold in 1862, and 6,000
miners flocked...
-
Province of
Marlborough on a
tributary of the
Pelorus River called the
Wakamarina. When word of the rich
bonanza claims reached Otago,
thousands of men...
- 1858, with
Lucknow Street as the main thoroughfare. The gold rush to the
Wakamarina Valley in 1864
boosted the
growth of the township, with
sawmilling becoming...
- here now
mostly forms part of
State Highway 6
until where it
crossed the
Wakamarina River at Canvastown. An
embankment on the east side is
still visible today...
-
pilot for Hannibal,
circa 203 BC. In 1864, gold was
discovered in the
Wakamarina Valley and, for a
brief time,
Havelock became a boom town as
several thousand...
-
Canvastown is a
locality at the
point where the
Wakamarina River joins the
Pelorus River, in Marlborough, New Zealand.
State Highway 6 runs
through the...
