The title Clutha is synonymous with its river, Mata-Au. Operating 338 kilometres from Lake Wānaka to the Pacific Ocean, it’s New Zealand’s quickest and largest river by quantity.
By the point its turquoise waters attain Clutha District, they’ve already flowed by means of the nation’s largest concrete dam – the 100m-tall Clyde Dam that got here to epitomise Robert Muldoon’s Suppose Huge technique to diversify the financial system with huge power and industrial initiatives.
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