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Milford Sound attracts between 550,000 and 1 million visitors per year. [29] [30] This makes the sound one of New Zealand's most-visited tourist spots even with its remote location and long journey times from the nearest population centres. [4] Many tourists take one of the boat tours which usually last one to two hours.
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Bowen Falls. The Bowen Falls (Māori: Hineteawa), also known as Lady Bowen Falls, is a popular tourist attraction at Milford Sound, a fiord in New Zealand. [1]The 9-kilometre (5.6 mi) long Bowen River located in Fiordland National Park supplies the waterfall with water; the Bowen River is also used to generate electricity and supply drinking water to the nearby locality also named Milford Sound.
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. A fiord is a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley. The spelling fiord is used in New Zealand rather ...
Mitre Peak Mitre Peak, Milford Sound Highest point Elevation 1,683 m (5,522 ft) Prominence 95 m (312 ft) Parent peak Aoraki / Mount Cook Coordinates 44°37′57″S 167°51′22″E / 44.63250°S 167.85611°E / -44.63250; 167.85611 Geography Mitre Peak South Island, New Zealand Mitre Peak (Māori: Rahotu) is a mountain in the South Island of New Zealand; it is located on the shore ...
Milford Sound village covers 8.34 km 2 (3.22 sq mi), [1] and is part of the much larger but almost entirely unpopulated Fiordland statistical area. [ 15 ] The village had a population of 105 at the 2018 New Zealand census , an increase of 9 people (9.4%) since the 2013 census , and unchanged since the 2006 census .
Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve is a marine reserve covering an area of 690 hectares (1,700 acres) in the Milford Sound / Piopiotahi, in Fiordland on New Zealand's South Island. It was established in 1993 and is administered by the Department of Conservation .
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