Waikato

American  

[wahy-kah-toh] / waɪˈkɑ toʊ /

noun

1. a river in central North Island, New Zealand, flowing NW to the Tasman Sea: longest river in New Zealand. 264 miles (425 km) long.

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Waikato British  

/ ˈwaɪˌkɑːtəʊ /

noun

1. the longest river in New Zealand, flowing northwest across North Island to the Tasman Sea. Length: 350 km (220 miles)

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Waikato

The Blues, who narrowly lost their opening game at home to the Waikato Chiefs, remain in Australia and meet the Brumbies in Canberra next.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

A coaching role with his former side Waikato kept Mitchell in New Zealand before he moved on to coach clubs in Australia and South Africa.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

I wanted to spend our time exploring the parks along the Waikato River on foot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

Anthropologists Jane Anderson at New York University and Maui Hudson of the University of Waikato in New Zealand have spent the past decade developing a digital tool to help that happen.

From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2023

At last we reached the forest, which extended from where we were to the banks of the Waikato.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer