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The Hutt River (Māori: Te Awa Kairangi, Te Wai o Orutu or Heretaunga; officially Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River) flows through the southern North Island of New Zealand.It flows south-west from the southern Tararua Range for 56 kilometres (35 mi), forming a number of fertile floodplains, including Kaitoke, central Upper Hutt and Lower Hutt.
The Hutt Valley (or 'The Hutt') is the large area of fairly flat land in the Hutt River valley in the Wellington region of New Zealand.Like the river that flows through it, it takes its name from Sir William Hutt, a director of the New Zealand Company in early colonial New Zealand.
The bridge is notable because it was the first substantial bridge in New Zealand to be constructed using prestressed concrete beams. [1] [2] The bridge connects Petone with Seaview, and carries Waione Street with one lane in each direction. It also carries major water pipes across the Hutt River. There is a pedestrian walkway on the south side. [1]
The park covers 2,860 ha (7,100 acres) in the Tararua Ranges foothills. The steep hills and Hutt River gorge are covered in native trees. [1]The conifer-broadleaf rainforest at the fork of Pakuratahi River and Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River typifies the original vegetation of the area.
The Waiwhetu aquifer covers a wedge-shaped area of 75 km² under the Hutt Valley and Wellington Harbour, and by size is the fifth-largest in New Zealand. [1] The harbour basin contains massive quantities of gravel washed down from the Hutt River, in some places hundreds of metres deep.
The tramway with a track gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) ran from a large saw mill at the end of what is now MacLaren Street in Mangaroa into the Akatarawa Forest crossing the Hutt River at Te Mārua. The bridge was destroyed by floods in 1939. [2] May Morn Estates (NZ) Ltd was a London company of investors.
A settlement, Britannia, grew up close to the mouth of the Hutt River (Te Awa Kairangi in Māori language), and settlers set up New Zealand's first newspaper and bank. [6] The city takes its name from the English name given to the river, named after one of the founding members, director and chairman of the New Zealand Company, Sir William Hutt ...
Kaitoke to Hutt Forks (2 hours), a formed track over the ridge into the catchment. Hutt Forks - Alpha via Eastern Hutt (5 hours), a marked route from the right bank of the Eastern Hutt River, that later becomes unmarked. Hutt Forks - Alpha via Quoin Ridge (6 hours), a track from Forks Head north up Quoin Ridge, which requires a map and compass.