Coal River is a river in Mackenzie District, Canterbury, New Zealand. The river flows westward from the Two Thumb Range into the northern end of Lake...
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Coal River may refer to: Rivers Coal River (Canada), in Yukon and British Columbia Coal River (Fiordland), in New Zealand Coal River (Canterbury), in New...
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Clearwater River Cleddau River Clinton River Clive River Clutha River Clyde River Coal River (Canterbury) Coal River (Fiordland) Cobb River Collins River Conway...
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River is a river in Canterbury, New Zealand and flows from Lake Lyndon south into the Rakaia River. Small deposits of coal are found near the river....
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Canterbury power station supplied electricity to the city of Canterbury, Kent, England, from 1900 to 1960. This small generating station was owned and...
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Whitstable (category City of Canterbury)
was opened by the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway Company. In 1832 the company built a harbour and extended the line to handle coal and other bulk cargos...
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Greymouth (section Coal Creek Track)
named the Grey River after Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand. As numbers of colonists continued to increase in Nelson and Canterbury, interest grew...
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The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, sometimes referred to colloquially as the "Crab and Winkle Line", was an early British railway that opened in 1830...
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The Pike River Mine is a coal mine formerly operated by Pike River Coal 46 km (29 mi) north-northeast of Greymouth in the West Coast Region of New Zealand's...
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create the right conditions for coal formation. This is found in East Kent roughly between Deal, Canterbury, and Dover. The Coal Measures within the Westphalian...
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valuable mineral was coal. Discovered near the Buller River in the mid-1840s, mining began in earnest during the 1860s. By the 1880s coal had become the region's...
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2009. Knight, Catherine (2016). New Zealand's Rivers: An Environmental History. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. ISBN 978-1-927145-76-0. Mosley...
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Julius von Haast (category Academic staff of the University of Canterbury)
was a German-born New Zealand explorer, geologist, and founder of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch. Johann Franz Julius Haast was born on 1 May 1822...
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Avoca, New Zealand (redirect from Avoca Canterbury, New Zealand)
railway station. Coal was then distributed throughout Canterbury. The opening of the Otira Railway Tunnel in 1923 giving access to cheaper coal from Westland...
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East Kent Light Railway (section Coal traffic)
valley with coalminers' houses. (No mines were proposed there; the "Canterbury Coal Co" had a boring at Chilton in 1912 which showed that the seams were...
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Kaiapoi (category Populated places in the Canterbury Region)
Kaiapoi is a town in the Waimakariri District of the Canterbury region, in the South Island of New Zealand. The town is located approximately 17 kilometres...
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Park on the upper river to East Grinstead. Trade along the Ouse Navigation consisted mostly of lime, chalk, manure, aggregates and coal. Whilst in 1801...
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Confederation of Cinque Ports. After the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, Dover flourished as the only designated port of entry...
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Midland Line, New Zealand (category Rail transport in the Canterbury Region)
was announced that coking coal from the Pike River Coal mine would be transported to Lyttelton for export. Pike River Coal had reserved under contract...
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title The Avengers), Went the Day Well? (1942), We Dive at Dawn (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), The Seventh Veil (1945), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)...
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"New Romney Unearthed". Canterbury Archaeological Trust. Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. "Kent Sites" (PDF). Canterbury Archaeological Trust.[permanent...
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Glentunnel (category Populated places in the Canterbury Region)
the Selwyn District of the Canterbury region of New Zealand's South Island. It has a close historical association with coal, clay and sand mines of the...
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1925, the Matthes Coal and Construction Company was marketing "Niggerhead Coal" as more efficient and a better buy than soft coal. Bouclé fabric was...
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Greenwich (category Districts of London on the River Thames)
Celtic route from Canterbury to St Albans. As late as Henry V, Greenwich was only a fishing town, with a safe anchorage in the river. During the reign...
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imagery connected with the insecurity offered by Tyche and Fortuna. In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer refers to the sword of Damocles, which the Knight...
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Mining in New Zealand (redirect from Coal industry in New Zealand)
the latter half of the 19th century. New Zealand has abundant resources of coal, silver, iron ore, limestone and gold. It ranked 22 in the world in terms...
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Toa / Clarence River to Kāi Tahu. Kāi Tahu continued to push south, conquering Kaikōura. By the 1730s, Kāi Tahu had settled in Canterbury, including Banks...
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Waikato River delta) Rabbit Island (Canterbury) (in Rakaia River) Rakaia Island (in the Rakaia River delta) Rangitata Island (in the Rangitata River delta)...
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had failed). Similarly, in an interprovincial match between Otago and Canterbury, also in August 1882, local newspaper reports stated that Otago had won...
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Two Thumb Range (category Mountain ranges of the Canterbury Region)
(sometimes called the Two Thumbs Range) is a range of mountains in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand's South Island. It is located to the east of Lake...
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