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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 ...
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Endeavour Inlet (Māori: Panaruawhiti) is a large inlet of Queen Charlotte Sound, part of New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds. It lies north-east of Bay of Many Coves / Miritū Bay and south-west of Resolution Bay. [1] The inlet is home to a number of retreats, including Furneaux Lodge and Punga Cove.
shipwreck 11 May 1865: 240 km off the Chatham Islands: 75: SS Penguin: shipwreck 12 Feb 1909: off Cape Terawhiti: 68 [7] General Grant: shipwreck May 1866: Auckland Island: 10 castaways survived the wreck and were successfully rescued. 65 [8] Brunner Mine disaster: mine explosion 26 Mar 1896: Brunner: 65 [9] 2nd Little Waihi Landslide landslide ...
Forsyth Island lies in the outer Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand's South Island and is separated from the mainland by the 300m wide Allen Strait (also known as Guards Pass). The island comprises a mixture of farm land and native bush on hills rising to over 350 metres (1,148 ft) with views into the Marlborough Sounds and east towards the ...