The Cass River is an alpine river in the
Canterbury
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region of the South Island of
New Zealand
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. It rises in the Hall Range immediately below Rankin Pass, and also receives water from the nearby
Huxley Glacier. After dropping very rabidly the river flows south with
braided channels along a flat-bottomed valley for . The
Leibig Range and
Gamack Range are to the west, and the
Haszard Range to the east.
The river flows into the west side of
Lake Tekapo
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Lake Tekapo ( mi, Takapō) is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Ohau). I ...
where it has built up a gravel delta.
[New Zealand 1:50000 Topographic Map Series sheet BY17 Lake Tekapo]
The Cass River is named for
Thomas Cass, Chief Surveyor of
Canterbury Province
The Canterbury Province was a Provinces of New Zealand, province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Its capital was Christchurch.
History
Canterbury was founded in December 1850 by the Canterbury Assoc ...
from 1851 to 1867.
References
Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand
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