Gray River
Location
CountryNew Zealand
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationFiordland National Park
Mouth 
  location
Rakituma / Preservation Inlet

The Gray River is a river in the Fiordland area of New Zealand. It arises in the Cameron Mountains in Fiordland National Park and flows south-west and then north-west into Revolver Bay, on the south side of Rakituma / Preservation Inlet.[1][2]

The river may have once flowed into Kisbee Bay, south of its current mouth, but it built a broad flat by depositing glacial debris, changing its course to Revolver Bay.[3]

See also

References

  1. Peter Dowling, ed. (2004). Reed New Zealand Atlas. Reed Books. pp. map 104. ISBN 0-7900-0952-8.
  2. Roger Smith, GeographX (2005). The Geographic Atlas of New Zealand. Robbie Burton. pp. map 240. ISBN 1-877333-20-4.
  3. "The Geology of the Region about Preservation and Chalky Inlets, Southern Fiordland, N.Z.". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961. Vol. 64. 1935. p. 80.

46°06′S 166°44′E / 46.100°S 166.733°E / -46.100; 166.733


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