Kaipara Harbour
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Kaipara Harbour is a large enclosed harbour estuary complex on the north-western side of the North Island of New Zealand. The northern part of the harbour is administered by Kaipara District Council a
Juvenile white trevally (araara)
The three-masted barque Anglo Norman went aground on Pouto Peninsula near the harbour entrance in 1914
Kaipara lighthouse, 2012
New Zealand cockle
Ria
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A ria is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley. It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea.
Kaipara Harbour
…the shoreline are connected to the mainland by mudflats at low tide. The Kaipara Harbour is broad and mostly shallow, as it is formed from a system of drowned river valleys. The harbour shoreline is convoluted by the entry of many rivers and streams, and is about 800 kilometres (500 mi) long, being the drainage catchment…
Port Jackson, also referred to as Sydney Harbour, is a ria, or drowned river valley. The deeply indented shape of the ria reflects the dendritic pattern of drainage that existed before the rise in sea level that flooded the valley.
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