Karamea
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Karamea ia a town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
It is the northernmost settlement of any real size on the West Coast, and is located 100 kilometres north by road from Westport. There is no other connecting road to the town - the road north ends at smaller settlements a few kilometres from Karamea, not far from the western end of the Heaphy Track.
The name Karamea is Maori - despite local jokes suggesting it was named by an Italian for his love - and is thought to either mean "red ochre" or be a corruption of Kakarataramea, "the smell of speargrass leaves". The large bay formed by the curve of coastline north for 100 kilmetres from Cape Foulwind is called Karamea Bight.