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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 ...
Marlborough was an iron-built two-decked merchant sailing ship which disappeared in 1890. She was built by the firm of Robert Duncan and Co., Port Glasgow and launched in 1876. First managed by James Galbraith for the Albion Shipping Company, she was registered in 1880 to the ownership of John Leslie of London, while continuing to operate ...
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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.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Islands of the Marlborough Sounds" The following 17 pages are in this ...
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 ...
Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui [a] is the easternmost of the main sounds of the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand's South Island.. In 2014, the sound was given the official name of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui as part of a Waitangi Tribunal settlement with the Te Āti Awa tribe.