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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 ...
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
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 ...
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"
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.
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 ...
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Others are wrecks of vessels lost in disasters (such as RMS Rhone in the British Virgin Islands, Zenobia in Cyprus and the many shipwrecks off the Isles of Scilly in England). In the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, the wreck of MS Mikhail Lermontov, a 177-metre (581 ft) cruise liner which was lost in 1986, is a popular dive site. Lying at 37 ...