6-565: Grey River may refer to: Grey River (New Zealand) , a major river in the west of New Zealand's South Island. Grey River (Victoria) , Australia Grey River, Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada Grey River (Chile) See also [ edit ] Little Grey River , a tributary of the Grey River, in New Zealand Gray River , Fiordland, New Zealand Greys River ,
12-644: A tributary of the Snake River, in the United States [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grey_River&oldid=1090692049 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
18-680: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Grey River (New Zealand) The Grey River / Māwheranui is located in the northwest of the South Island of New Zealand. It rises 12 kilometres southwest of the Lewis Pass in Lake Christabel , one of numerous small lakes on the western side of the Southern Alps , and runs westward for 120 kilometres before draining into
24-500: The Tasman Sea at Greymouth . Thomas Brunner , who explored the area in the late 1840s, named the river in honour of Sir George Grey , who first served as Governor of New Zealand from 1845 to 1854. The Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 changed the official name of the river to Grey River / Māwheranui in 1998. The Māori name for the river system and surrounding area is Māwhera , with Māwheranui being distinguished from
30-589: The northern branch Little Grey River / Māwheraiti. The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "broad and widespread (river mouth)" for Māwheranui . Numerous small rivers are tributaries of the Grey, and several of them also drain lakes. Notable among these are the Ahaura River and the Arnold River , the latter of which is the outflow of Lake Brunner , the largest lake of
36-422: The northwest South Island. A small hydroelectric station stands on the river 25 kilometres upstream from the mouth. The Grey River's mouth is protected by a large sandbar , Greymouth bar, which is a notorious danger to shipping. Raw sewage discharges into the Grey River after heavy rainfall. Historically, sewage and stormwater from Greymouth, Cobden and Blaketown were discharged without treatment directly into
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