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Tamatea / Dusky Sound is a fiord on the southwest corner of New Zealand, in Fiordland National Park. Geography
Breaksea Sound, and its arms: Vancouver Arm; Broughton Arm; Acheron Passage (linked to Dusky Sound) Wet Jacket Arm; Tamatea / Dusky Sound. Supper Cove; Fanny Bay; Cascade Cove; Taiari / Chalky Inlet, and its arms: Moana-whenua-pōuri / Edwardson Sound; Te Korowhakaunu / Kanáris Sound [1] Rakituma / Preservation Inlet, and its arms: Isthmus ...
Typical weather in Doubtful Sound. Doubtful Sound / Patea is a fiord in Fiordland, in the far south west of New Zealand. It is located in the same region as the smaller but more famous and accessible Milford Sound / Piopiotahi. It took second place after Milford Sound as New Zealand's most famous tourism destination. [1]
Juvenile kākāpō on Anchor Island in Dusky Sound. Pukenui is home to the endangered species kākāpō. The first kākāpō were transferred to Pukenui in 2005 after stoat eradication in 2001. These birds are managed by the Kākāpō Recovery Team, which is a part of the New Zealand Department of Conservation.
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.
[9] The type location has been designated as Dusky Sound on the southwest corner of New Zealand's South Island. [10] [11] The generic name Strigops is derived from the Ancient Greek strix, genitive strigos ("owl"), and ops ("face"), while its specific epithet habroptilus comes from habros ("soft"), and ptilon ("feather"). [12]
It lies within Tamatea / Dusky Sound, east of Long Island. The island is part of Fiordland National Park and is the third-largest island in the park with no possums present. [ 3 ]
Taumoana (Five Finger Peninsula) Marine Reserve is a marine reserve covering an area of 464 hectares (1,150 acres) in Fiordland on New Zealand's South Island.It was established in 2005 and is administered by the Department of Conservation.