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    Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau is a New Zealand waituna-type lagoon in the northeastern South Island, close to Cook Strait. The lake is used for the production...
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    covering 70 km2 (27 sq mi) Lake Bumbunga near Lochiel, South Australia Lake Grassmere, near Marlborough, New Zealand Lake Hillier in the Recherche Archipelago...
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    Jerusalem in 1890 and small numbers of subfossil bones, the first found at Lake Grassmere in 1947, followed by records of other stray individuals. The bones were...
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  • The 2013 Lake Grassmere earthquake was a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that occurred at 2:31:05 pm (NZST) on Friday 16 August 2013. The epicentre was located...
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  • Zealand. It flows into Clifford Bay 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) north of Lake Grassmere. A small settlement named Blind River is located on its south bank....
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    16 August 2013 Lake Grassmere Marlborough 6.6 6.5 6.0 8 km 41.73°S 174.15°E 2013 Lake Grassmere earthquake 16 August 2013 Lake Grassmere Marlborough 6...
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    compared a large collection of C. sumnerensis from Marfells Beach near Lake Grassmere with Australian swan bones, but could not find any marked differences...
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    Dampier, Lake McLeod, Useless Loop and Onslow salt ponds in Western Australia. Yellow Walls, Malahide, Ireland; active from 1770 to 1837. Lake Grassmere in...
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    Blenheim, close to the mouths of the Awatere and Blind Rivers and the Lake Grassmere salt works. Salt and lime are major local industries, and the Awatere...
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    large-grained, non-iodised salt. Lake Grassmere salt Sea Seawater, from the Pacific Ocean, is pumped into Lake Grassmere, New Zealand and evaporated. Maldon...
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    discovered pounamu, the former introduced the first dogs (kurī) and created Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau to drown Te Kāhui Tipua – who were described as 'giants'...
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  • New Zealand Marlborough Fault System 1848 Marlborough earthquake 2013 Lake Grassmere earthquake 2016 Kaikōura earthquake "Wellington earthquake: We can afford...
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  • The bay's most notable feature is the solar salt extraction works at Lake Grassmere, close to the southern end of the bay. Since the 1920s, there have been...
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    confirmed nor any major damage. At 2:31 pm on Friday 16 August 2013 the Lake Grassmere earthquake struck, this time magnitude 6.6, but again no major damage...
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    of the South Island: from Wairua Lagoon and Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau in Marlborough, through Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora and Coopers Lagoon / Muriwai...
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    / Cloudy Bay Croisilles Harbour Elaine Bay Fairy Bay Kenepuru Sound Lake Grassmere / Kapara Te Hau Maungatapu Meretoto / Ship Cove Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere...
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    The section of the Main North Line rail link from Picton south to Lake Grassmere reopened on 16 January 2017. The complete railway from Picton to Christchurch...
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    arrived with Rākaihautū. Kupe managed to kill Te Kāhui Tipua by creating Lake Grassmere and drowning their villages. He sailed back to Hawaiki and never came...
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    southeast of Blenheim. Cape Campbell lies close to the salt works at Lake Grassmere. It is the third-easternmost point of the South Island, at a longitude...
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  • waters. Fossil remains found in Māori middens at the Wairau Bar and at Lake Grassmere in the Marlborough region indicate that it was extensively hunted by...
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  • Columbia Grasmere, Ontario Grasmere, New Zealand, in Invercargill Lake Grassmere Grasmere (lake), Cumbria, England Grasmere (village), Cumbria, England Grasmere...
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  • a war-party led by him defeated the Ngāti Toa chief Te Rauparaha at Lake Grassmere. The Ngāti Toa leader escaped with his life only through luck. Four...
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    Seddon, New Zealand (6.5, Jul 21) Dingxi, China (5.9, Jul 22 †) August Lake Grassmere, New Zealand (6.6, Aug 16) September Awaran, Pakistan (7.7, Sep 24 †‡)...
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    Lake Warren was a proglacial lake that formed in the Lake Erie basin around 12,700 years before present (YBP) when Lake Whittlesey dropped in elevation...
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  • Seddon, New Zealand (6.5, Jul 21) Dingxi, China (5.9, Jul 22 †) August Lake Grassmere, New Zealand (6.6, Aug 16) September Awaran, Pakistan (7.7, Sep 24 †‡)...
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    maritime industries are also important sources of employment for Blenheim. Lake Grassmere has New Zealand's only salt works, producing 50% of the country's total...
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    of Tūhawaiki, Taiaroa, Karetai, and Haereroa, attacking Ngāti Toa at Lake Grassmere. Ngāi Tahu prevailed, and killed many Ngāti Toa, although Te Rauparaha...
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    South Island (section Lakes)
    under the leadership of Tūhawaiki and others, attacking Ngāti Toa at Lake Grassmere. Kāi Tahu prevailed, and killed many Ngāti Toa, although Te Rauparaha...
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    if normalised for the effects of the 2013 Seddon earthquake and 2013 Lake Grassmere earthquake). In 2024 it was reported that the passenger numbers had...
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    March 2021. Most of the rolling stock the society operated was from the Lake Grassmere Saltworks former salt collection railway. Blenheim Riverside Railway...
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