The Wharemauku Stream is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
on the
Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's
North Island
The North Island, also officially named Te Ika-a-Māui, is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but much less populous South Island by the Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest ...
. Its headwaters are in the
Maungakotukutuku valley, and it flows through
Paraparaumu and
Raumati Beach before reaching the
Tasman Sea on the northern side of
Raumati Marine Gardens
Raumati Marine Gardens is a public park in Raumati Beach on New Zealand's Kāpiti Coast. It is near the Tasman Sea just behind the beach, hence its name, and on the northern side of the park, the Wharemauku Stream
The Wharemauku Stream is a str ...
. From its headwaters to the sea, it passes through Kapiti Golf Course, Kaitawa Reserve, under the
North Island Main Trunk railway and the former
State Highway 1
The following highways are numbered 1.
For roads numbered A1, see list of A1 roads.
For roads numbered B1, see list of B1 roads.
For roads numbered M1, see List of M1 roads.
For roads numbered N1, see list of N1 roads.
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, Coastlands shopping centre, part of
Paraparaumu Airport
Kapiti Coast Airport ( IATA: PPQ, ICAO: NZPP), earlier called Paraparaumu Airport, is on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island, between the Wellington dormitory suburbs of Paraparaumu Beach (to the west and north), Paraparaumu to the ...
, and
Weka Park
Raumati Beach is a beach community on the Kapiti Coast of New Zealand's North Island; located 60km north-west of Wellington, and about 10 km north of Raumati South. It is immediately to the south-west of the larger town of Paraparaumu. The Maun ...
. Many small nameless streams meet the Wharemauku Stream, and a walking track approximately long follows it from Rimu Road to Weka Park.
References
Wharemauku Wetlands ''Kapiti Independent News.'' November 12, 2014
External links
Friends of Wharemauku Stream
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Rivers of the Wellington Region
Rivers of New Zealand