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Irwell River (New Zealand)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Irwell River is a river of the Canterbury Plains, on New Zealand's South Island. A short river, it rises to the southeast of Dunsandel, flowing southeast to enter the broad, shallow Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora.

Flows through: New Zealand.

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

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