Kerikeri River (Waikato)
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This article is about Kerikeri River, in Waikato, New Zealand. For the river in Northland, New Zealand, see Kerikeri River.
The Kerikeri River is a short river of the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It flows into the northern shore of Raglan Harbour.
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Kerikeri River | |
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Location | |
Country | New Zealand |
Physical characteristics | |
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• elevation | 170 metres (560 ft) |
Mouth | |
• location | Raglan Harbour |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Length | 9 km (5.6 mi) |
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The valley is largely along the line of the fault on the eastern edge of Whaingaroa Harbour. It flows over Coleman Conglomerate and, at its lower end, blue-grey Puti Siltstone, both of Puaroan age (about 150 million years ago).[1]
From about 1870 Sam and Tom Wilson ran a flax mill powered by a wheel in the river.[2] Much of the native bush was cleared for farming between 1910 and 1920.[3]