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Simple map of the Doubtful Sound complex of fiords and islands. Doubtful Sound lies deep within the Fiordland National Park, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the nearest inhabited place, the small town of Manapouri, and is surrounded by mountainous terrain with peaks typically reaching 1,300–1,600 metres (4,300–5,200 ft).
Deep Cove (Māori: Taipaririki) [citation needed] is an arm of Doubtful Sound, a deep indentation in the southwest coast of New Zealand's South Island.Along with the Hall Arm, which lies to the southwest of Deep Cove, it forms one of the two most remote parts of the sound from the Tasman Sea, with its mouth being 32 kilometres (20 mi) from the mouth of Doubtful Sound.
Map of Fiordland National Park. The following is a list of the sounds and inlets or similar features which punctuate the coast of Fiordland, in southwestern New Zealand, in geographic order from north to south:
Of the twelve major fiords on Fiordland's west coast, Milford Sound is the most famous. The fiords of New Zealand ( Māori : tai matapari "bluff sea" [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ) are all located in the southwest of the South Island , in a mountainous area known as Fiordland .
It connects Doubtful Sound, a deep indentation in the coast of Fiordland, to the valley of the West Arm of Lake Manapouri. The pass is named after E. H. Wilmot, a former surveyor-general of New Zealand, who had noted it while surveying the area in 1897. [2] It lies between Mount Wilmot and Mount Mainwaring.
Hinenui / Nancy Sound is located between Taiporoporo / Charles Sound and Te Awa-o-Tū / Thompson Sound, part of the Doubtful Sound complex. [1] The fiord runs straight in a northwesterly direction for most of its 15.4 kilometre length, with the exception of a bend to the west near its entrance and a nearly right-angle bend near its head.
Elizabeth Island (Māori: Pōkaikōkō) is the largest island in the inner Doubtful Sound, in Fiordland National Park, in New Zealand's South Island. It was created during the last glaciation, its narrow long shape aligned with the direction of the fiord. The island is uninhabited and entirely covered in dense native bush.
The mountain is situated between the head of the Hall Arm of Doubtful Sound / Patea and the head of the Vancouver Arm of Breaksea Sound. Precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains to Hall Arm of Doubtful Sound. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above tidewater of Hall Arm in less than two kilometres. The nearest ...