Английская Википедия:Cardrona River
Шаблон:Short descriptionШаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox river The Cardrona River is in Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the first tributaries of the Clutha River / Mata-Au, which it meets only Шаблон:Convert from the latter's origin at the outflow of Lake Wānaka.
The Cardrona flows north for Шаблон:Convert down the steep narrow Cardrona Valley. Its headwaters are near New Zealand's highest main road, the Crown Range route.[1] The river runs past the settlement of Cardona and the Cardrona skifield, then south of Wānaka township.
The original name of the river is the Шаблон:Lang. It was a traditional Māori route linking Whakatipu Waimāori (Lake Wakatipu) with lakes Wānaka and Hāwea. Ngāi Tahu recorded Ōrau as a kāinga mahinga kai (food-gathering place) where tuna (eels), pora ('Māori turnip') and weka were gathered.[2]
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