List of sounds and inlets of Fiordland
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The following is a list of the sounds and inlets or similar features which punctuate the coast of Fiordland, in southwestern New Zealand, in geographic order from north to south:
- Big Bay
- Martins Bay
- Milford Sound
- Poison Bay
- Sutherland Sound
- Hāwea / Bligh Sound
- Bounty Haven
- George Sound
- South West Arm
- Looking Glass Bay
- Caswell Sound
- Charles Sound
- Emelius Arm
- Hinenui / Nancy Sound
- Foot Arm
- Thompson Sound
- Bradshaw Sound (also Doubtful Sound)
- Precipice Cove
- Gaer Arm
- Bradshaw Sound (also Doubtful Sound)
- Doubtful Sound / Patea, and its arms:
- Malaspina Reach
- Hall Arm
- Crooked Arm
- First Arm
- Malaspina Reach
- Dagg Sound
- Anchorage Arm
- Breaksea Sound, and its arms:
- Vancouver Arm
- Broughton Arm
- Acheron Passage (linked to Dusky Sound)
- Wet Jacket Arm
- Tamatea / Dusky Sound
- Supper Cove
- Fanny Bay
- Cascade Cove
- Taiari / Chalky Inlet, and its arms:
- Rakituma / Preservation Inlet, and its arms:
- Isthmus Sound
- Useless Bay
- Te Awaroa / Long Sound
- Lake Hakapoua (divided from sea by a landslide in 1915)[2]
Many of the sounds and inlets were given dual names in 2019.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Proposal considered by the Board on 20 April 2021 for: Te Korowhakaunu / Canaris Sound, or Te Korowhakaunu / Kanaris Sound, or Te Korowhakaunu / Kanáris Sound" (PDF). Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ B. R. Stanton; R. A. Pickrill (1988). "Trapped sea water in Lake Hakapoua, New Zealand (Note)". New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 22 (2): 293–294. doi:10.1080/00288330.1988.9516301.
- ^ "More than 20 places receive dual English and Māori names from Land Information New Zealand". Radio New Zealand. 26 December 2019.