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  2. Meretoto / Ship Cove - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. MS Mikhail Lermontov - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. File:Long Island, Marlborough Sounds.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Special pages; Printable version; Page information ... Long Island is a wildlife refuge and marine sanctuary in Queen Charlotte Sound. Date: 6 February 2020, 08:19:37 ...

  6. File:NZ Marlborough Sounds relief location map.svg - Wikipedia

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  7. Category:Marlborough Sounds - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Marlborough Sounds" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 ...

  8. 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.

  9. Waikawa, Marlborough - Wikipedia

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    Waikawa Bay opens onto Queen Charlotte Sound. [3] [4] The New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage gives a translation of "bitter water" for Waikawa. [5] Waikawa is an important New Zealand tourist destination because its large marina acts as gateway to the Marlborough Sounds and famous treks (hikes) such as the Queen Charlotte Track.