Inondation
Ouvrir sur la carte21 people working on the Wairoa-Gisborne railway are drowned when a flash flood hits a works camp at Kopuawhara near Mahia
19 févr. 1938 · 38.97° S, 177.86° E
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- 19 févr. 1938
- Type
- Inondation
- Coordonnées
- 38.97° S, 177.86° E
- Description
- 21 people working on the Wairoa-Gisborne railway are drowned when a flash flood hits a works camp at Kopuawhara near Mahia.
Placé à : coordinates of the event it links, Kopuawhara flash flood of 1938.
Kopuawhara flash flood of 1938
Natural disaster in New Zealand
A flash flood on the Waiau Stream at Kopuawhara in New Zealand on 19 February 1938 destroyed a railway construction workers camp killing 20 men and one woman, Martha Quinn.
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