Named after the thundering waters of the Kawarau River.

In 1986, Ged Hay began taking his body board down the Kawarau River near Queenstown in New Zealand while on his days off as a rafting guide.

Accompanied by Māoris, he walked from Tuturau ( Southland ) to the lake via the Kawarau River, later returning by a raft floating down the Clutha.

Cromwell lay at the confluence of the Clutha River and Kawarau River, which was noted for the difference between the colours of the waters of the two rivers and also for the historic bridge at the convergence of the two.

Kawarau River with Roaring Meg hydro station

Kawarau River drains Lake Wakatipu, in northwestern Otago, New Zealand.

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The lake is drained by the Kawarau River, which flows out from the lake's Frankton Arm, east of Queenstown.

The river flows generally south from the Southern Alps on its journey running through the Skippers Canyon, before draining into the Kawarau River east of Queenstown.

It is a tributary of the Kawarau River, which in turn feeds into the Clutha.

It flows north for 40 kilometres through rough country before meeting the Kawarau River, of which it is a tributary.

According to oral tradition in the early 18th century Tuwiriroa moved from Tititea on the Kawarau River near modern Queenstown and built a pa, ( fortified settlement ), Motupara, near Taieri Mouth.

* Roaring Meg hydro scheme, a hydroelectric scheme on the Kawarau River in New Zealand

* Bannockburn, is located on the southern banks of the Kawarau River near Cromwell and is a very warm area that was known by gold miners as “ the Heart of the Desert ”.

About 250 hectares of vines are planted on sloping land on the southern bank of the Kawarau River.

* The Cromwell Basin contains the highest concentration of vines in an area bounded by the Kawarau River, Lake Dunstan and the Pisa mountain range.