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Inlet outlet

This is the Whanganui Inlet at the northwest corner of New Zealand's South Island. The enclosed estuary, a drowned river valley, is about 13km long by 2-3km wide. Virtually all of it has Department of Conservation reserve status as the estuary support a huge variety and number of estuarine fauna and local and migratory bird species.

 

Access is by rough, unsealed road through intensively farmed countryside

 

Shot taken from the top of Knuckle Hill, 506m, on a hazy, very windy day.

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Uploaded on February 4, 2014
Taken on January 14, 2014