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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. List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  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. List of shipwrecks of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    A Soviet passenger liner that ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds 41°02′32″S 174°13′10″E  /  41.042087°S 174.219496°E  / -41.042087; 174.219496  ( MS Mikhail Lermontov RMS Niagara

  6. List of natural disasters in New Zealand - Wikipedia

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    Buller District, Tasman District, and Marlborough Region: $140,470,000 [48] Torrential rain in mid-July 2021 led to flooding in the West Coast's Buller District, Tasman District, and Marlborough regions of the South Island, prompting evacuations of residents and state of emergency.

  7. Category:Cook Strait - Wikipedia

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    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"

  8. Meretoto / Ship Cove - Wikipedia

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    Meretoto / Ship Cove is a small bay in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand, renowned as the first place of prolonged contact between Māori and Europeans. [1] It is located near the entrance of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, west of nearby Motuara Island and Long Island.

  9. Cook Strait - Wikipedia

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    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 ...