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  2. Mataura River - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. 2023 southern New Zealand floods - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Mataura - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Mataurá River - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Southland Region - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. The Devastating Consequences Of A 'Small' Rise In Global ...

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    World leaders are meeting in Paris this month in what amounts to a last-ditch effort to avert the worst ravages of climate change. Climatologists now say that the best case scenario — assuming immediate and dramatic emissions curbs — is that planetary surface temperatures will increase by at least 2 degrees Celsius in the coming decades.

  8. Surge of high water to escalate flooding concerns on rivers ...

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    Major flood stage at Fargo is 30 feet. Record-setting flooding occurred in the city back in 2009 when waters reached 40.84 feet. Major flooding is a concern all the way along the Mississippi River ...

  9. The Catlins - Wikipedia

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    The mouths of two large rivers, the Clutha River in the northeast and the Mataura River in the west, mark its coastal limits. To the north and northwest, the rough bush -clad hills give way to rolling pastoral countryside drained and softened by the actions of tributaries of these two rivers such as the Pomahaka River .