Wairau River
The Wairau River is one of the longest rivers in New Zealand's South Island. It flows for 170 kilometres from the Spenser Mountains, firstly in a northwards direction and then northeast down a long, straight valley in inland Marlborough.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wairau Valley.
Wairau Valley
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Wairau Valley is the valley of the Wairau River in Marlborough, New Zealand and also the name of the main settlement in the upper valley. State Highway 63 runs through the valley. Wairau Valley is situated 5 km southwest of Wairau River.
Wairau River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the South Island, New Zealand
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Wairau River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Wairau”
- Catalan: “Wairau”
- Cebuano: “Wairau River”
- Chinese: “怀劳河”
- Dutch: “Wairau River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر وايراو”
- French: “Wairau”
- German: “Wairau River”
- Lithuanian: “Vairau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wairau River”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wairau”
- Norwegian: “Wairau”
- Polish: “Wairau River”
- Russian: “Уаирау (река)”
- Russian: “Уаирау”
- Welsh: “Afon Wairau”
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