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  2. Marlborough Sounds - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Category:Marlborough Sounds - Wikipedia

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  4. Pelorus Sound - Wikipedia

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    Pelorus Sound (Māori: Te Hoiere; officially Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere) is the largest of the sounds which make up the Marlborough Sounds at the north of the South Island, New Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds is a system of drowned river valleys , which were formed after the last ice age around 10,000 years ago.

  5. Kenepuru Sound - Wikipedia

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    Kenepuru Sound from Queen Charlotte Track. Kenepuru Sound is one of the larger of the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand. [1] The drowned valley is an arm of Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere, it runs for 25 kilometres (16 mi) from the northeast to southwest, joining Pelorus Sound a quarter of the way down the latter's path to the Cook Strait.

  6. Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Admiralty Bay (New Zealand) - Wikipedia

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    The bay, one of the larger of numerous bays in the crenellated coast of the sounds, is 10 kilometres (6 mi) wide at its mouth and extends 8 kilometres (5 mi) south. The peninsula into which it cuts is almost bisected by the bay, with a narrow isthmus only some 900 metres (3,000 ft) wide lying between the bay's southernmost extent and Hallam ...

  8. Tory Channel - Wikipedia

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    Tory Channel (officially Tory Channel / Kura Te Au) is one of the drowned valleys that form the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand. Inter-island ferries normally use it as the principal channel between Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds. [1] [2] Tory Channel lies to the south of Arapaoa Island, separating it from the mainland.

  9. List of long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom

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    Runs around the Derbyshire Dales through Chatsworth, Derbyshire and the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. Fen Rivers Way: 50 80: Eastern England: Cambridge: King's Lynn, Norfolk: Runs alongside the River Cam and on to the River Great Ouse. Geopark Way: 109 175: West Midlands and South West England: Bridgnorth Castle: Gloucester Cathedral