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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 ...
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 ...
List of shipwrecks: 2 January 2025 Ship State Description Glyvursnes Faroe Islands: The ro-ro cargo ship caught fire at Hirtshals, Denmark. A crew member was killed and another was severely injured. [1] Unnamed migrant boat Tunisia: A migrant boat capsized off the Kerkennah Islands with the loss of 27 of the 52 people on board. [2]
The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York.It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.
Long Island-Kokomohua Marine Reserve is a marine reserve, in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island. It covers an area of 619 hectares at the entrance to the Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough Sounds. [1] [2] It was the first marine reserve established on the South Island. [3]
Marlborough: shipwreck (presumed) 1890: between Lyttelton and London: 29 [17] MV Kaitawa: shipwreck 23 May 1966: near Pandora Bank, Cape Reinga: 29: Pike River Mine disaster: mine explosion 19 Nov 2010: northwest of Greymouth: large methane explosion [18] 26: Barque Maria: shipwreck [15] 1851: Cape Terawhiti: 25 + [19] [20] Storm of 1897 ...
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D'Urville Island (/ d ɜːr ˈ v ɪ l /), Māori name Rangitoto ki te Tonga, is the largest island in the Marlborough Sounds, on the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was named after the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville .