The Landsborough River is located in

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. A major tributary of the

Haast River The Haast River / Awarua is a river on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The Māori name for the river is Awarua. It drains the western watershed of the Haast Pass. The Haast River is in length, and enters the Tasman Sea near ...

, it flows southwest, parallel with the

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, for 50 kilometres from its source five kilometres north of Mount Hopkins to meet the Haast 12 kilometres below the

Haast Pass Haast Pass / Tioripatea is a mountain pass in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand. Māori used the pass in pre-European times. The pass takes its name from Julius von Haast, a 19th-century explorer who also served as provincial ...

. In April 2005 the

Nature Heritage Fund The Nature Heritage Fund is a funding body of the New Zealand Government set up in 1990 for the purchase of land which has significant ecological or landscape value. It is administered by the Department of Conservation, but controlled by the Min ...

purchased private land in the Landsborough River valley as an addition to the

Mount Aspiring National Park Mount Aspiring National Park is in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, north of Fiordland National Park, situated in Otago and Westland regions. The park forms part of the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site. Geography Establis ...

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* http://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap/nz25345/Landsborough-River/West-Coast Westland District Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand Mount Aspiring National Park Rivers of New Zealand {{WestCoastNZ-river-stub