Bligh sound
| Bligh sound | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 44 ° 50 ′ S , 167 ° 31 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-STL | |
| Country : | New Zealand | |
| region | Southland | |
| Sea access | Tasman Sea | |
| Data about the sound | ||
| entrance | 2 750 m wide | |
| length | around 18.5 km | |
| width | on average 1.0 km | |
| Coastline | around 43 km | |
| Tributaries | Rapids Wild Natives River , and numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks) | |
The Bligh Sound is a fjord on the South Island of New Zealand .
Origin of name
The Bligh Sound got its name from the Welsh captain of the Royal Navy , John Grono , who traveled the southwest coast of the South Island for the seal hunt on the Governor Bligh between 1809 and 1819 and thereby explored the coastal landscape.
geography
The approximately 18.5 km long Bligh Sound is located around 8 km southwest of Sutherland Sound and around 33 km southwest of Milford Sound on the southwestern part of the west coast of the South Island. The fjord bends twice on its way inland at a right angle, even at the throat of the Cloudy Pass it from a southeasterly direction in a Southwestern and the Evening Point again in the southeast direction to the mouth of the Rapids Wild Virgin River . The width of the sound varies between around 350 m and 1650 m and opens up to the Tasman Sea to a width of 2750 m. The mountains surrounding the sound rise to over 1,300 m .
About 10 km southwest is the George Sound .
geology
The Bligh Sound is in the classic sense a fjord that, like all fjords in the southwest of the South Island, was created on the one hand by glacier movements of the last glacial period and on the other hand was formed by the flooding of the valley by rising sea levels. The name sound came from the first European settlers and seafarers who called numerous valleys in the Fiordland region as sounds , a name that is actually only used for the river valleys flooded from the lake side, such as the sounds in the Marlborough Sounds in the north the south island. The seafarers, mostly of English or Welsh origin, did not know any fjords from their homeland and so they used the names they knew for the inlets, which were later no longer corrected.
Marine reserve
The middle part of the fjord was designated as a marine reserve under the name Hawea ( Clio Rocks ) Marine Reserve in 2005 . It covers an area of 411 hectares .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Samuel Grono : A Memoir on Milford Sound (NZ) . Naval Historical Society of Australia , June 1996, accessed March 1, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed March 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Coordinates and longitudes were partly made using Google Earth Version 7.1.8.3036 on March 1st, 2018.
- ^ A b Milford Sound & Doubtful Sound . (PDF 1.1 MB) Destination Fiordland , November 2016, accessed on May 2, 2019 .
- ^ Section C The Marlborough Costal Environment . (PDF 3.98 MB) Marlborough District Council , June 2014, p. 34 , accessed on May 2, 2019 .
- ^ Fiordland Marine ( Te Moana a Atawhenua ) Reserves . (PDF 2.0 MB) Department of Conservation , 2010, p. 19 , accessed on March 1, 2018 (English).