![Waimangaroa township](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Waimangaroa_township.jpg)
The Waimangaroa River is located on the
West Coast of
New Zealand
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.
The river passes through
tussock, scrub and forested areas before draining into the Karamea Bight in the
Tasman Sea
The Tasman Sea ( Māori: ''Te Tai-o-Rēhua'', ) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer ...
. It passes through the town of
Waimangaroa and is crossed by the
Ngakawau Branch railway
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, with the rail bridge brought into service in 1877. That year, the
Conns Creek Branch opened, a sub-
branch line
A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line.
Industrial spur
An industr ...
that closely followed the southern bank of the river east from Waimangaroa to the foot of the
Denniston Incline. It closed in 1967.
Buller District
Rivers of the West Coast, New Zealand
Rivers of New Zealand
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