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Kaikoura is served by the Main North Line, the northern section of the South Island Main Trunk Railway.
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The large Kaikoura electorate covers all of the Marlborough Region and is represented by National MP Colin King.
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Kaikoura (; ) is a town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
The town is the governmental seat of the territorial authority of the Kaikoura District, which is politically a part of the Canterbury Region.
However Kaikoura has now become a popular tourist destination, mainly for whale watching ( the Sperm Whale watching is perhaps the best and most developed in the world ) and swimming with or near dolphins.
A strategic plan for the future of the Kaikoura coast is being developed by Te Korowai o te Tai o Marokura, the Kaikoura Coastal Guardians.
TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7 are available on SKY TV and Prime Television is available on Freeview in Kaikoura.
These are More FM Marlborough ( formally Sounds FM ) broadcast from Blenheim during the day and Auckland at night, Blue FM which is a locally broadcast Kaikoura station, and Tahu FM broadcast from Christchurch.
The Kaikoura airstrip is mainly used for whale spotting tourist flights by Wings over Whales and Air Kaikoura-Kaikoura Aero Club, it can also be used by small private and charter flights.
Kaikoura is served by the TranzCoastal long-distance passenger train, which connects the town with Christchurch to the south, and Picton and the Cook Strait ferries to the north.
It is located 65 kilometres southwest of Kaikoura ( 135 km by car ), in the Hurunui District.
The city has warm summers and cool winters, and is the gateway to Mount Hutt and other Southern Alps ski-fields, and to whale watching in Kaikoura.
Kaikoura is 82 km to the southwest.
This food source attracts the whales for which the town of Kaikoura is famous.
The Kaikoura Peninsula is located in the northeast of New Zealand's South Island.
The town of Kaikoura is located on the north shore of the peninsula.
The Kaikoura Peninsula is made up of limestone and mudstone which have been deposited, uplifted and deformed throughput the Quaternary.
The Kaikoura Canyon is a submarine canyon situated 500 metres off the coast to the south-east of the peninsula.
The Kaikoura Peninsula is located on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
In the landscape they appear as a flight of terraces with the oldest appearing at the top and the youngest at the shoreline where the Kaikoura township is situated.
The shoreline of the Kaikoura Peninsula is exposed to an extremely long fetch from the Pacific Ocean, and it is also characterized as a high-energy oceanic swell environment, with high-energy storms interrupting long periods of relative calm.
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Paikea, the youngest and favourite son of the chief Uenuku from the island of Mangaia, in the present day Cook Islands, was said by the Kati Kuri people of Kaikoura to have come from the Pacific Islands on the back of a whale many centuries before.
He held his Marlborough seat until the 1996 elections, when the seat was superseded by the new ( and larger ) Kaikoura electorate.
He was followed in Kaikoura by Lynda Scott.
Named the Looker-on mountains, by Captain James Cook, they take their name from the town of Kaikoura at the southern extreme of the more eastern range, the Seaward Kaikouras.
The peninsula has been settled by Maori for approximately 1000 years, and by Europeans since the 1800s when whaling operations began off the Kaikoura Coast.
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World War II brought even more delays, but this time, construction progressed through wartime and the Main North Line was finally completed when the northern and southern ends met at Kaikoura on 15 December 1945.
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It flows from the northern flanks of the Inland Kaikoura Range into the Awatere River and lies within the
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* H. maori, the mountain stone weta, lives in the drier areas of the South Island high country from the Kaikoura Ranges south to Rock and Pillar Range near Dunedin.
South of Kaikoura the plate boundary changes to a transform boundary with oblique continental collision uplifting the Southern Alps in the South Island.
The Kaikoura range on the South Island including Mt Tapuaenuku can be seen from some places at the southern end of the township.
The Kaikoura Ranges are two parallel ranges of mountains in the northeast of the South Island of New Zealand.
The Kaikoura Canyon is a submarine canyon located southwest of the Kaikoura Peninsula off the northeastern coast of the South Island.
Consequently the initial motion of a debris avalanche in the gully, and the resulting tsunami, is towards the shore of South Bay and the southern side of the Kaikoura Peninsula.
The Hundalee Hills are located close to the borders of Hurunui District and Kaikoura District in Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Smaller surrounding islands include Kaikoura Island, Rakitu Island, Aiguilles Island and Dragon Island.
Port Fitzroy seen from the top of Kaikoura Island ( previously Selwyn Island ), 1967.
The iwi's takiwā ( tribal area ), the largest in New Zealand, extends from Kaikoura in the north to Stewart Island / Rakiura in the south, and includes the West Coast area, Tai Poutini.
Kaikoura Island ( formerly known as Selwyn Island ) lies to the west of Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand.
Kaikoura Island is the seventh largest island in the Hauraki Gulf, north east of Auckland.
* Kaikoura Island to be protected and restored-Government press release
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