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| | Waikato River, New Zealand |
 | | The Waikato, New Zealand's longest river (425km), rises as the Tongariro River on the snow-capped Mount Ruapehu (2787m) volcano in Tongariro National Park, flows through Lake Taupo and emerges from it as the Waikato River at Taupo. |
 | | Before the river was tamed by dams, power stations and flood barriers in the 20th C., it fully justified its name with its waterfalls, whirlpools, rapids, marshy areas and floods. |
 | | At Mercer, north of Huntly, the Waikato abruptly turns west and flows into the Tasman Sea in a wide estuary, over fl ferruginous sand. |
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