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Until about 18,000 years ago the Mataura drained Lake Wakatipu.The Kingston Flyer follows part of the former river bed, now blocked by glacial moraine. [2]For Māori, the Mataura was an important ara tawhito (traditional travel route) that provided direct access from Murihiku to Whakatipu Waimāori (Lake Wakatipu). [3]
The town straddles the Mataura River which flows south through the town and is a source of brown trout. On the northern outskirts of the town the river falls over a bed of sandstone 6.1 metres (20 ft) high to create the Mataura Falls which is known by local Māori as Te Aunui (the great current). [4]
Though an evacuation centre was established in Mataura Community Centre, Mataura Community Board chair Nicky Coats confirmed that the evacuation was not carried out since the rain had subsided. Due to heavy rainfall, the Roxburgh Dam in Central Otago released more water into the Clutha River on 21 September, raising the water level. [5]
It is on the Southern Scenic Route and is situated on the western bank of the Mataura River. [2] Nearby settlements include Ashers to the west, and across the Mataura, Pine Bush and Titiroa to the east. The name Gorge Road derives from the former name, Gorge Run, an early landholding in the same location. [3] [4]
Mataurá River (Portuguese: Rio Mataurá) is a river of Amazonas state in north-western Brazil. It is a tributary of the Madeira River , and merges into this river roughly halfway between the towns of Manicoré and Novo Aripuanã .
Get the Mataura, Austral Islands local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Southland extends from Fiordland in the west past the Mataura River to the Catlins the east. It contains New Zealand's highest waterfall, the Browne Falls , and its deepest lake, Lake Hauroko . Fiordland's terrain is dominated by mountains, fiords and glacial lakes carved up by glaciations during the last ice age , between 75,000 and 15,000 ...
Fortrose is a locality on the southernmost coast of the South Island of New Zealand in the Southland region. [1] It is situated on Toetoes Bay at the mouth of the Mataura River, and is on the far western edge of the Catlins.