Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds were created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels. According to Māori mythology, the sounds are the prows...
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the Marlborough Sounds make for a convoluted and attractive coastline. The town of Picton is located at the southern end of one of the larger sounds, Queen...
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Marchant to provide low cost flights to the Marlborough Sounds. The airline's head office as well as it's Sounds Aero Maintenance division is based at Omaka...
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Zealand. Whilst entering the Tory Channel (which leads through the Marlborough Sounds to Picton) the ship made its turn too late, turned too slowly and...
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Picton, New Zealand (redirect from Picton, Marlborough)
Waitohi) is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island. The town is located near the head of the Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, 25 km...
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Havelock, New Zealand (redirect from Marlborough Sounds West)
Havelock is a small town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand, at the head of Pelorus Sound, one of the Marlborough Sounds, and at the mouth of the Pelorus...
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north, is of historical significance to the native Māori people. The Marlborough Sounds at the northern tip of the South Island form a large network of rias...
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Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui is the easternmost of the main sounds of the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand's South Island. In 2014, the sound was given...
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These sounds are more appropriately called ria. The Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand are good examples of this type of formation. Sometimes a sound is produced...
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Murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope (category Marlborough Sounds)
friends had been celebrating on New Year's Eve at Furneaux Lodge in the Marlborough Sounds with other partygoers. The pair accepted an offer from a stranger...
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Kenepuru Sound is one of the larger of the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand. The drowned valley is an arm of Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere...
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Cook Strait (category Landforms of the Marlborough Region)
in the Marlborough Sounds and in the Kāpiti area. From the late 1820s until the mid-1960s Arapaoa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds. Perano...
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D'Urville Island (redirect from D'Urville Island (Marlborough Sounds))
(/dɜːrˈvɪl/), 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...
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The Marlborough Sounds Important Bird Areas are four distinct sites comprising several small, rocky islets contained within an area with a maximum linear...
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Columbia Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, located in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical...
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MS Mikhail Lermontov (category Marlborough Sounds)
On 16 February 1986 it collided with rocks near Port Gore in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, and sank, claiming the life of one of its crew members...
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French Pass (category Marlborough Sounds)
the coast was gouged into the convoluted shapes that today make up the Sounds. Kupe's loyal shag then led Kupe to the French Pass passage, and explored...
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Pelorus Sound (Māori: Te Hoiere; officially Pelorus Sound / Te Hoiere) is the largest of the sounds which make up the Marlborough Sounds at the north of...
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Anakiwa (redirect from Marlborough Sounds East)
village in the Marlborough region of New Zealand. It sits at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound/Tōtaranui, one of the Marlborough Sounds, 23 km (14 mi)...
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Cloudy Bay (category Bays of the Marlborough Region)
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...
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loved making 'The Sounds,' a show that's both a mystery and a change of scenery". Toronto Star. Retrieved November 17, 2020. "The Sounds – Listings". The...
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Lyall's wren (category Marlborough Sounds)
Lyall's wren or the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli) was a small, flightless passerine belonging to the family Acanthisittidae, the New Zealand...
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lizard of the family Diplodactylidae. The lizard is found in the Marlborough Sounds / Cook Strait area of New Zealand. "Meet te mokomoko a Tohu: a new...
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Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, Queenstown, Kaikōura, and the Marlborough Sounds are regarded as the main tourism destinations in the South Island...
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Kaitangata, Owaka 412, 413, 415, 418, 419 Blenheim Blenheim, Havelock, Marlborough Sounds (excluding D'Urville Island & Rai Valley), Picton, Renwick, Seddon...
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size and age composition, and yield-per-recruit of blue cod in the Marlborough Sounds, September 1996". NIWA. Thompson, S.M. (1981). Fish of the marine...
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low elevation and valley forests of New Zealand's North Island and Marlborough Sounds (41° S) and the type species for the genus Knightia. Rewarewa grows...
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List of marinas (section Marlborough Sounds)
This is a list of marinas in various countries. Orikum Marina, Orikum, Vlore Sydney Empire Marina Bobbin Head Akuna Bay Marina Berowra Waters Blakehurst...
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Tory Channel (category Sounds of the Marlborough Sounds)
the Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand. Inter-island ferries normally use it as the principal channel between Cook Strait and the Marlborough Sounds. Tory...
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Long Island is located in Queen Charlotte Sound, one of the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. James Cook recorded its original name as Hamote. The island...
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