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    The Oaro River is a river of the north Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows south from its sources in the Hundalee Hills, turning...
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  • Oaro is a settlement close to the Pacific Ocean Coast of north Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand. Oaro is within Kaikōura District on State...
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    9 m ± 0.3 m. At Oaro, the height was 5.3 m ± 0.3 m. Marine and freshwater flora and fauna were later found scattered across the Oaro River flood plain, extending...
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  • Wellington North Opuha River North River Nūhaka River Nukuhou River Oakura River Ōamaru River Oaro River Ōhau River (Canterbury) Ōhau River (Manawatū-Whanganui)...
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  • most important of these places of refuge was the Omihi Pa, north of the Oaro River. In 1829, however, Te Rauparaha returned to the attack. He landed at Kaikōura...
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    Volga (redirect from Volga river)
    Οαρος, romanized: Oaros; Latin: Oarus), which was derived from Scythian *Varu, meaning "broad". The Huns' name of the Dnieper river, Var, was also derived...
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    Dnieper (redirect from Dnepr river)
    connected to the Graeco-Roman name of the Volga river, Oarus (Ancient Greek: Οαρος, romanized: Oaros; Latin: Oarus), which was also derived from Scythian...
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  • less than 10 cm (3.9 in) thick gouge zones. On its northside over the Oaro River valley are the uplifted relatively low Hundalee Hills. During the last...
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    points of the Kaikōura Ranges to the west, and along the coastline from Oaro in the south, to just beyond Kekerengu in the north. Populated places within...
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    adults in a very small sample.[citation needed] MNZ MM002142, collected from Oaro overbridge, south of Kaikōura, New Zealand, 19 October 1993. Cetaceans portal...
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    change in requirements resulting from the Commission of Inquiry in the Pike River Mine disaster, and as well on any other passenger trains on the Main North...
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    Vasmer associates the name of the river Don with an assumed/reconstructed unattested Scythian word *dānu "water, river", and with Avestan dānu-, Pashto...
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    closed Nelson Section. Accessible by public walkway. No 4 Tunnel – south of Oaro township on the Main North Line. Access on foot south of township via a railway...
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  • tsunami represents a large potential hazard to the area from South Bay to Oaro. An extreme event has been modelled, incorporating failure of the entire...
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    Picton Railway Act in October, approving a line from Picton to the Wairau River under the auspices of the Marlborough Provincial Council. The political...
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    Recreation Reserve Morven Recreation Reserve Mount Nessing Recreation Reserve Oaro Recreation Reserve Ohoka Stream Recreation Reserve Okains Bay Domain Recreation...
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