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Kōrero: Water resources

Boulder stream

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Boulder stream

The headwaters of many of the rivers and streams that drain mountain catchments often have boulder beds – the general rule is that the closer to the headwaters you are, the larger the boulders are. This boulder-bed stream is the Iris Burn in Fiordland.

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by Carl Walrond

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Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Charles Pearson, Water resources – Rivers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18194/boulder-stream (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mike Scarsbrook rāua ko Charles Pearson, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.