Mokihinui

Mokihinui is a lightly populated locality on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Mokihinui is on the Tasman Sea coastline north of Westport and is on the southern side of the Mokihinui River's mouth. It is situated between the sea and the foothills of the Glasgow Range and State Highway 67 passes through Mokihinui just before reaching its northern end on the other side of the river. Statistics New Zealand includes Mokihinui in a statistical area of the same name that covers both the locality itself and its neighbours such as Seddonville and Summerlea. This statistical area had a population of 162 at the 2001 New Zealand Census of Population and Dwellings, a decrease of 60.8% or 72 people since the 1996 census. Mokihinui's...