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The Marlborough Sounds (te reo Māori: Te Tauihu-o-te-Waka) are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds were created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels. [1] According to Māori mythology, the sounds are the prows of the many sunken waka of ...
MS Mikhail Lermontov, launched in 1972, was the last of the five "poet" ships: Ivan Franko, Taras Shevchenko, Alexandr Pushkin (later became Marco Polo), Shota Rustaveli and Mikhail Lermontov, named after famous Ukrainian, Georgian and Russian writers (Ivan Franko and Taras Shevchenko being Ukrainian, and Shota Rustaveli being Georgian), built to the same design at V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft ...
Wanganella in her pre-war livery A.H.S. Wanganella as a hospital ship M.S. Wanganella after the war, pictured here in a cove of Doubtful Sound. RMS Windsor Castle: 1921 Torpedoed and sunk on March 23, 1943, by German aircraft off Algiers, Algeria S.S. Windsor Castle in Windsor Castle. SS Winifredian: 1889 Scrapped in 1929
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The entrance to the sound was a jumping-off point between the North Island and the South Island. The cove was valued by Māori as a place of shelter before crossing the Cook Strait and as a place to rest up after the trip. [6] In the late 1770s, people did not live permanently at the cove. They came to fish and gather seasonal foods in the ...
Cook Strait attracted European settlers in the early 19th century. Because of its use as a whale migration route, whalers established bases in the Marlborough Sounds and in the Kāpiti area. [6] [7] From the late 1820s until the mid-1960s Arapaoa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds. Perano Head on the east coast of the island was the ...
A camera lost in a shipwreck has been found nearly two years after the vessel sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Vancouver Island. And not only was the device returned to its ...
shipwreck [15] 1851: Cape Terawhiti: 25 + [19] [20] Storm of 1897: floods and shipwreck 16 Apr 1897: North Island flooding at Clive, boating accidents, and the wreck of the Zuleika near Cape Palliser. 25 confirmed deaths and 6 unconfirmed 25 [21] [22] MV Joyita: ghost ship Oct 1955: En route from Apia, Samoa to Tokelau: 24 [23] Assaye ...