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The entrance to the sound was a jumping-off point between the North Island and the South Island. The cove was valued by Māori as a place of shelter before crossing the Cook Strait and as a place to rest up after the trip. [6] In the late 1770s, people did not live permanently at the cove. They came to fish and gather seasonal foods in the ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Stephens Island Takapourewa (Māori) Stephens Island as seen from D'Urville Island Stephens Island Geography Location Marlborough Sounds Coordinates 40°40′S 174°00′E / 40.667°S 174.000°E / -40.667; 174.000 Area 1.5 km 2 (0.58 sq mi) Highest elevation 283 m (928 ft) Administration New Zealand Demographics Population 0 Stephens Island (Māori: Takapourewa) is at the ...