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Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

The Whataroa

The Whataroa.

The River Whataroa is also a true glacier river, its main sources issuing from several large glaciers on the south-western flanks of Mount Tyndall and the western slopes of Mount Petermann, the Keith Johnstone and Hector ranges. After entering the lower ice-page 225worn hills, its bed expands considerably and being nearly a mile broad, but after having received the outlet of the small Lake Rotokino, the river passes through a narrow gorge for about half a mile. It then again expands, and retains the character of a broad shingle river to its mouth. In the same lagoon that this river has formed at its mouth, the two Waitangis, the Waitangi-toana and Waitangi-roto, empty themselves. They are of inconsiderable size, drain a great deal of swampy ground, and their sources only go back to the front ranges which branch off Mount Maximilian.