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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 .
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 ...
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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.
"The Marlborough Sounds" is a local term for a complex of bays and inlets on the northern tip of the South Island, which comprises three main sounds: Kenepuru Sound Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere
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]
A sound is often formed by the seas flooding a river valley. This produces a long inlet where the sloping valley hillsides descend to sea-level and continue beneath the water to form a sloping sea floor. These sounds are more appropriately called rias. The Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand are good examples of this type of formation.
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.