Hapua or river-mouth lagoons form in micro-tidal environments.

Hapua form in this type of tidal environment as the tidal currents are unable to compete with the powerful freshwater flows of the rivers therefore there is no negligible tidal penetration to the lagoon.

The march, from the northern tip of the North Island to Parliament in Wellington at the other end of the island made her nationally recognised, with her determined figure, no longer strong in body but strong in mana and will, walking at the head of the march from Te Hapua to Wellington.

During September and October 1975, the nearly 80-year-old Cooper again became nationally recognised, walking at the head of the Māori land march from Te Hapua to Wellington.

* The Māori land march took place in New Zealand with 5, 000 Māori people arrived at the Parliament Building in Wellington after having marched from Te Hapua on the north side of the nation.

Hapua systems are driven by a wide range of dynamic processes that are generally classified as fluvial or marine ; changes in the balance between these processes as well as the antecedent barrier conditions can cause shifts in the morphology of the hapua, in particular the barrier.

Hapua are located in areas dominated by longshore drift ; because it aids the formation of the barrier behind which the hapua is sited.

Hapua are associated with MSG beaches as the variation in sediment size allows for the barrier to be permeable.

Hapua have a number of characteristics which includes shifts between a variety of morphodynamic states due to changes in the balance between marine and fluvial processes as well as the antecedent barrier conditions.

Hapua are often located on paraglacial coastal areas where there is a low level of coastal development and minimal population density.

Hapua are defined as a narrow shore-parallel extensions of the coastal riverbed.

Hapua have been identified as establishing in the Canterbury Bight coastal region on the east coast of the South Island.

Hapua are non-estuarine, there is no tidal inflow however the tide does have an effect on the level of water in the lagoon.

Hapua can act as both a source and sink of sediment.

Hapua are extremely important for a number of reasons.

Although there are a number of settlements with over 100 people, including Te Hapua, Te Kao, Pukenui and Kaimaumau, the Peninsula is sparsely inhabited, with a total population of approximately 1600.

Te Hapua Wharf and Parengarenga Harbour.

Te Hapua is a settlement at the western side of the harbour.

Water in these places drills its way downward by dissolving the carbonate rock to form an extensive underground river system.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

This may exemplify a rare example of insular dwarfing in a mainland context, with the " islands " being formed by the extensive river networks in the Amazon Basin, which form effective biogeographic barriers.

Cerberus (), or Kerberos, ( Greek form: Κέρβερος, ) in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound ( usually three-headed ) which guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping.

Erosion and changes in the form of river banks may be measured by inserting metal rods into the bank and marking the position of the bank surface along the rods at different times.

Belgian journalist Jo Gérard has claimed that a family manuscript dated 1781 recounts that potatoes were deep-fried prior to 1680 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is now present-day Belgium, in the Meuse valley: " The inhabitants of Namur, Andenne, and Dinant, had the custom of fishing in the Meuse for small fish and frying, especially among the poor, but when the river was frozen and fishing became hazardous, they cut potatoes in the form of small fish and put them in a fryer like those here ".

Iceman has also been able to move rapidly to another distant location while in his organic ice form, being able to deposit his bodily mass into a river and reconstitute his entire mass a great distance away in a matter of minutes ( by temporarily merging his molecules with those of the river ).

It then flows out of Jackson County and into Calhoun County before it goes through the town of Albion where the North Branch connects with the South Branch and they form to be one river.

:" And then, when Jesus had come to the river Jordan where John was baptizing, and when Jesus came down into the water, a fire was even kindled in the Jordan, and when He was rising up from the water, the Holy Spirit fluttered down upon Him in the form of a dove, as the < U > apostles have written </ U > about this very Christ of ours.

Lesotho can be roughly divided into three geographic regions: the lowlands, following the southern banks of the Caledon River, and in the Senqu river valley ; the highlands formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country ; and the foothills that form a divide between the lowlands and the highlands.

Immediately above it, the river has been dammed to form a hydroelectric reservoir extending some up the valley.

While the three gods are at the falls, Ótr ( in the form of an otter ) catches a salmon and eats it on a river bank, his eyes shut, when Loki hits and kills him with a stone.

In this region the general level of the country begins to decrease in elevation, with only a few mountain spurs, which from time to time push as far as the river and form small-scale pongos.

The Mindanao River and its main tributaries, the Catisan and the Pulangi, form a valley with a maximum length of and a width which varies from at the river mouth to about in central Cotabato.

Ice congestions may form in winter in the upper reaches of the river, this sometimes causes upstream floods.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

Image: Allegheny Monongahela Ohio. jpg | The Allegheny River ( left ) and Monongahela River ( right ) join to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — the largest metropolitan area on the river.

The smaller Cybina river flows through eastern Poznań to meet the east branch of the Warta ( that branch is also called Cybina – its northern section was originally a continuation of that river, while its southern section has been artificially widened to form a main stream of the Warta ).

The Styx (, also meaning " hate " and " detestation ") ( adjectival form: Stygian, ) is a river in Greek mythology that formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld ( often called Hades which is also the name of this domain's ruler ).

In Tajikistan's dense river network, the largest rivers are the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya ; the largest tributaries are the Vakhsh and the Kofarnihon, which form valleys from northeast to southwest across western Tajikistan.

These rivers form the two main river basins of Central Asia ; they are used primarily for irrigation, and several artificial canals have been built to expand the supply of arable land in the Fergana Valley and elsewhere.

The higher regions of the Himalayas are snowbound throughout the year, in spite of their proximity to the tropics, and they form the sources of several large perennial rivers, most of which combine into two large river systems:

Dover ’ s name originated with its river – the River Dour, deriving from the Brythonic Dubrās (" the waters "), via its Latinized form of Dubris.