Buller River
The Buller River is a river in the South Island of New Zealand. The Buller has the highest flow of any river in the country during floods, though it is only the 13th longest river; it runs for 177 km from Lake Rotoiti through the Buller Gorge and into the Tasman Sea near the town of Westport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Westport Airport and Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library.
Westport Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Fmarier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westport Airport is an airport in Kawatiri, Westport, New Zealand. Originair has the only scheduled services into Westport, flying to Wellington using eighteen-seat BAE Jetstream 31.
Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library
Library
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
The Sue Thomson Casey Memorial Library, also known as the Westport Library and the Buller District Library, is a district library located in Westport in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand.
NBS Theatre
Theater building
Photo: NZ Owen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
NBS Theatre is a theater building, which is situated 2½ km southeast of Buller River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westport and Carters Beach.
Westport
Westport is the main town of the Buller District, in the northern part of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Westport has spectacular beaches at its back door, and the mighty Buller River, the largest river by volume in NZ, runs right beside the town.
Carters Beach
Village
Carters Beach is a suburb of Westport on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Located 6 kilometres west of Westport on State Highway 67A, it offers a pristine sheltered sandy beach on the West Coast suitable for swimming. Carters Beach is situated 3 km southwest of Buller River.
Sergeants Hill
Locality
Sergeants Hill is a lightly populated locality in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island. It is situated in a rural setting on the eastern outskirts of Westport in the Buller District. Sergeants Hill is situated 6 km southeast of Buller River.
Buller River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in New Zealand
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Buller River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر بولر”
- Asturian: “Ríu Buller”
- Catalan: “Buller”
- Cebuano: “Buller River”
- Dutch: “Buller River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر بولر”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Buller”
- French: “Buller”
- French: “Fleuve Buller”
- German: “Buller River”
- Irish: “Kawatiri”
- Japanese: “ブラー川”
- Lithuanian: “Buleris”
- Maori: “Kawatiri”
- Polish: “Buller”
- Russian: “Буллер”
- Spanish: “Río Buller”
- Welsh: “Afon Buller”
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Localities in the Area
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