The Shotover River (Māori: Kimiākau) is located in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand.

[1] The name correctly suggests that this 75-kilometre (47 mi) long river is fast flowing, with numerous rapids.

The river is used for commercial white water rafting trips and jet boating rides which operate out of the nearby tourist resort of Queenstown.

Much of the land that surrounds the Shotover River, upstream from Arthurs Point, is now foreign-owned by Robert Lange, the former husband of singer Shania Twain.

The river was named Shotover by the first European, William Gilbert Rees to settle on the shores of Lake Wakatipu in 1860.