The Wairau Fault is an active dextral (right lateral) strike-slip fault in the northeastern part of South Island, New Zealand. It forms part of the Marlborough...

smaller faults known as the Marlborough Fault System. This set of faults, which includes the Wairau Fault, the Hope Fault, the Awatere Fault, and the...

component. There are four main fault strands, being the Hope, Clarence, Awatere and Wairau faults, although many other smaller faults, of either strike-slip or...

gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, New Zealand Wairau Fault, an active fault in the northeastern part of...

the valley. The valley opens onto the Wairau Plain, where Renwick and Blenheim are sited. The Alpine–Wairau Fault runs along the length of the valley....

This list covers all faults and fault-systems that are either geologically important[clarification needed] or connected to prominent seismic activity.[clarification...

bordered to the south by the Alpine Fault (usually named the Wairau Fault in the Wairau Valley), the main fault forming the boundary between the Pacific...

Villamor, Pilar (2006). "Timing of late Holocene surface rupture of the Wairau Fault, Marlborough, New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics...

The Wairau Affray of 17 June 1843, also called the Wairau Massacre and the Wairau Incident, was the first serious clash of arms between British settlers...

Clarence Fault, passing through Barefell Pass. The Molesworth segment of the Awatere Fault runs from close to the junction between the Alpine and Wairau Faults...

investigated the incident and declared the settlers were at fault. The Wairau Affray—described as the Wairau Massacre in early texts—was the only armed conflict...

and the Classic period (c. 1500 – c. 1769). Archaeological sites such as Wairau Bar show evidence of early life in Polynesian settlements in New Zealand...

conflict began between the colonial government and Māori in 1843 with the Wairau Affray over land and disagreements over sovereignty. These conflicts, mainly...

earthquake resistance". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. "Alpine Fault". GNS Science. Retrieved 29 November 2011. Maclean, Chris (3 March 2009)...

east of the South Island is marked by wide braided rivers, such as the Wairau, Waimakariri and Rangitata; formed from glaciers, they fan out into many...

southern coast of the North Island. Formed along New Zealand's Marlborough Fault System, they can be seen as the northernmost extension of the Southern Alps...

using chert, and for stone clubs. These practices, well preserved at the Wairau Bar archeological site, were typical of East Polynesian culture at the same...

by significant large earthquakes. Examples of these are the 1848 Lower Wairau Valley quake, 1922 Vallenar earthquake, 1922 Rangiora quake, 1923 Kanto...

landmark forms a vivid contrast to the burnt brown of the Marlborough hills. A fault running underneath Lake Grassmere triggered a magnitude 6.6 earthquake on...

Council deemed the main terminal of Nelson Airport an earthquake risk and at fault of possible liquefaction. The airport has been granted 10 years to upgrade...

including the Wairau Valley. The hearings had been scheduled to begin in June 1843 but were delayed by the violent clash in the Wairau Valley on 17 June...

Kennedy at Wairau Bar in 2012...

of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians"...

nations or iwi include: Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Tama ki Te Tau Ihu, Ngāti Toa Rangatira and Te Atiawa...

River and that is divided from the Wairau River by a 695 m (2,280 ft) saddle, both aligned along the Alpine Fault, as is the top of the Buller valley...

focused on timber exporting. Building of the Hundertwasser Art Centre with Wairau Māori Art Gallery commenced in 2018 after the funding target of $20.97 million...

sea, and are now filled with mud. The eruption of Lake Pupuke caused the Wairau River, which used to come out around Shoal Bay, to change its course to...

tribe in honour of Te Rangihaeata, a chief who played a leading role in the Wairau Affray and the Hutt Valley Campaign in the New Zealand Wars. The motorway...

matches an umpire or referee would rule on these sorts of fouls as to whose fault it was, usually at the time, but sometimes only after the race had finished...

(1972) (born 1947). 4 July – Richard Bradley, Māori leader (Rangitāne o Wairau) (born 1952). 9 July – Kevin Dawkins, legal academic (University of Otago)...