The Te Hoe River is a river of the
Hawke's Bay region
Hawke's Bay ( mi, Te Matau-a-Māui) is a local government region on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. The region's name derives from Hawke Bay, which was named by Captain James Cook in honour of Admiral Edward Hawke. The region is ...
of
New Zealand
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's
North Island. It flows south from its sources west of
Lake Waikaremoana
Lake Waikaremoana is located in Te Urewera in the North Island of New Zealand, 60 kilometres northwest of Wairoa and 80 kilometres west-southwest of Gisborne. It covers an area of . From the Maori Waikaremoana translates as 'sea of rippling wat ...
to reach the
Mohaka River
The Mohaka river is on the North Island of New Zealand in the east central region of Hawke’s Bay. Mohaka is a Māori language, Maori word, roughly translated it means “place for dancing”. The iwi (Māori tribes) associated with the Mohaka Ri ...
20 kilometres north of
Lake Tutira.
The river and its tributary streams flow through the
Tahora Formation, and is a location where many
Mesozoic
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fossils have been uncovered since the 1970s. In 1999, palaeontologist
Joan Wiffen
Joan Wiffen (née Pederson, 4 February 1922 – 30 June 2009) was a self-taught New Zealand paleontologist known for discovering the first dinosaur fossils in New Zealand.
Early life
Wiffen was born in 1922 and was brought up in Havelock No ...
discovered the vertebra bone of a
titanosaur
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in a tributary of the Te Hoe River.
See also
*
List of rivers of New Zealand
This is a list of all waterways named as rivers in New Zealand.
A
* Aan River
* Acheron River (Canterbury)
* Acheron River (Marlborough)
* Ada River
* Adams River
* Ahaura River
* Ahuriri River
* Ahuroa River
* Akatarawa River
* Ākitio R ...
References
Rivers of the Hawke's Bay Region
Rivers of New Zealand
Paleontological sites of New Zealand
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