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Harman River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Harman River is a river of New Zealand. It starts in the Browning Range of the Southern Alps and becomes the Arahura River, which flows into the Tasman Sea north of Hokitika. The river can be reached on foot using the Styx Valley track. The river is named for R.J.S. Harman, a Canterbury surveyor, who discovered the nearby Harman Pass in 1865.

Flows through: New Zealand.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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