Английская Википедия:Awarau River

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Шаблон:Infobox riverThe Awarau River, usually known as Larry's Creek is located within the South Island of New Zealand.[1] The river is about Шаблон:Convert long[2] and runs northwest from its headwaters in the Victoria Range to its confluence with the Inangahua River north of Reefton.[3] It also drains part of the Brunner Range and there was a track along that range linking to Lyell[4] by 1901,[5] though none existed in 1874.[6] A track also ran south over Kirwan Hill to the Montgomerie River.[5]

A Шаблон:Convert forestry road runs north of the river from SH69 to Larrys Creek Track, which runs a further Шаблон:Convert to the site of the Caledonian Gold Mine.[7] The mine operated from 1874 to 1910, with shafts up to Шаблон:Convert deep.[8] It is the most northerly in the Reefton goldfield, in albite-epidote hornfels facies, which are less than 370 million years old.[9] Remnants of a stamping battery and a Robey portable steam engine are at the mine site.[10] Colinton was formed in 1874[11] as the township for the mine (and the river was sometimes called Colin River). By 1878 it had a population of 44,[12] but was gone by 1901. Just upstream is a deep, rocky gorge.[13]

The only bridges over the river are the Stillwater–Ngākawau railway and SH69.[14] Railway bridge 74 was a Шаблон:Convert road-rail bridge of 7 spans, built in 1905 for £2,915.[15] A bridge was planned at Colinton in 1880, but never built.[16]

Nothofagus fusca (red beech, or tawhai raunui) forests grow to about the Шаблон:Convert contour, with Nothofagus menziesii (silver beech, tawhai, or tahina) up to the tree line at about Шаблон:Convert.[17] Tūī, Anthornis melanura (korimako, makomako, kōmako, or bellbird), Petroica macrocephala (ngirungiru, or tomtit) and Petroica australis (Kakaruwai, or South Island robin) live in the bush.[18]

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