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Kawarau River drains Lake Wakatipu, in northwestern Otago, New Zealand.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Kawarau and Lake
SH6 continues south, crossing the Kawarau river before heading down the eastern side of Lake Wakatipu to Kingston before crossing the provincial boundary and emerging on the plains of Southland, terminating in the city of Invercargill.
Here the river is joined by the waters of the Kawarau, which flows from Lake Wakatipu.
The river flows generally eastwards for about 60 km and passes through the steep Kawarau Gorge until it joins Lake Dunstan near Cromwell.
Kawarau and Otago
At around this time, the first plantings of Pinot noir in the Central Otago wine region occurred in the Kawarau Gorge near Bannockburn.
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During the following years, Hackett performed a number of jumps from bridges and other structures ( including the Eiffel Tower ), building public interest in the sport, and opening the world's first permanent commercial bungee site ; the Kawarau Bridge Bungy at Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand.
Jumping at Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown, New Zealand, April 2007.
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Waitiri Station is the major ranch of the Kawarau Gorge and runs from the Bungy Bridge to the Roaring Meg on SH6.
The primary road access to the Queenstown area is via State Highway 6 ( SH6 ), which travels from Cromwell through the Kawarau Gorge to Frankton, where a 9 km spur ( SH6A ) leads to the CBD and connects with the Glenorchy Road.
Below Cromwell, where the silt-laden Kawarau enters, the waters are less turquoise.
Cromwell was originally known as " The Junction ", being at the confluence of the Clutha and Kawarau Rivers.
Several of the old buildings of the town which escaped the flooding have been retained as a historic precinct close to the shore of the Kawarau.
The Roaring Meg Hydro Scheme discharges into the Kawarau, and at times the lower station has been flooded by the river.
Kawarau Bridge Bungy, the world's first commercial bungy jumping | bungy site.
The Kawarau Bridge, 43m above the river, and a Category I historic place, is the site of the world's first commercial bungy jumping operation.
The Kawarau Jet boat flipped after hitting a sandbar, leaving one passenger trapped underneath, and putting the remaining 21 and driver into the river.
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