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Waikato wetlands, 1840 and 1995

  • 1840

  • 1995

Many of Waikato’s distinctive wetlands have been lost or split into fragments as the result of draining them to create farmland. Click to see how extensive the wetlands were in 1840, compared with 1995.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Waikato region – Landscape and climate, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/27053/waikato-wetlands-1840-and-1995 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 May 2010, updated 1 July 2015.