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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 ...
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 ...
Meretoto / Ship Cove is a small bay in the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand.It is located near the entrance of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, west of nearby Motuara Island and Long Island.
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 ...
Cook Strait attracted European settlers in the early 19th century. Because of its use as a whale migration route, whalers established bases in the Marlborough Sounds and in the Kāpiti area. [6] [7] From the late 1820s until the mid-1960s Arapaoa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds. Perano Head on the east coast of the island was the ...
Marlborough Sounds (7 C, 39 P) S. Shipwrecks of the Cook Strait (8 P) W. Wellington Harbour (3 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Cook Strait"
Struck rocks and sank on February 16, 1986, near Marlborough Sounds: Mikhail Lermontov in Tilbury: SS Minnewaska: 1923 Scrapped in 1934 SS Minnewaska departing the city of New York: SS Minnetonka: 1924 Scrapped in 1934 SS Minnetonka departing New York City: SS Montrose: 1897 Wrecked on Goodwin Sands on 20 December 1914 SS Montrose: RMS Mooltan ...
The Marlborough Sounds is a system of drowned river valleys, which were formed after the last ice age around 10,000 years ago. Pelorus Sound has a main channel which winds south from Cook Strait for about 55 kilometres (34 mi), between steeply sloped wooded hills, until it reaches its head close to the Havelock township.