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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 ...
English: Topographic and bathymetric map in English of the Marlborough Sounds, South Island, New Zealand. Note: the background map is a raster image embedded in the svg file. Français : Carte topograohique et bathymétrique en anglais des Marlborough Sounds , Île du Sud , Nouvelle-Zélande .
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The Marlborough Sounds is a system of drowned river valleys, which were formed after the last ice age around 10,000 years ago. Pelorus Sound has a main channel which winds south from Cook Strait for about 55 kilometres (34 mi), between steeply sloped wooded hills, until it reaches its head close to the Havelock township.
Module:Location map/data/New Zealand Marlborough Sounds is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Marlborough Sounds. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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]
Tory Channel (officially Tory Channel / Kura Te Au) is one of the drowned valleys that form the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand. Inter-island ferries normally use it as the principal channel between Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds. [1] [2] Tory Channel lies to the south of Arapaoa Island, separating it from the mainland.
Te Koko-o-Kupe / Cloudy Bay is located at the northeast of New Zealand's South Island, to the south of the Marlborough Sounds and north of Clifford Bay.In August 2014, the name Cloudy Bay, given by Captain Cook in 1770, was officially altered to Te Koko-o-Kupe / Cloudy Bay, [1] with the Māori name recalling the early explorer Kupe scooping up oysters from the bay.