Balclutha, New Zealand established a ferry service across the Clutha in 1857; as a result the town was initially called Clutha Ferry. The Māori name for the area is Iwikatea, literally "Bleached bones" (a local Māori tribal battle in 1750 left the decomposing bodies of the defeated, their bones whitened in the sun). The Clutha River flows through the town. It is the largest river in New Zealand by volume of water, and the country's second longest after the Waikato. It provides the town with various recreational facilities, including fishing (brown trout), water skiing and power boating. The most prominent structure in the
Little River (New Zealand) fibreglass penstock, up from, and above, the station, to drive a pelton wheel. Power is generated at 400 volts and transformed to feed into Electricity Ashburton's 11 kV network. Some water from the tailrace is used to irrigate , with the remainder returned to the river. The power station and penstock have been landscaped and are now barely visible. 1951 photo of Gorge Little River (New Zealand) The Little River is a tributary of Rakaia River, about long, in the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand's South Island. It rises on the Mount Hutt and enters the Rakaia above sea level.