Breaksea sound

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Breaksea Sound
Māori: Te Puaitaha
Geographical location
Breaksea Sound (New Zealand)
Breaksea sound
Coordinates 45 ° 34 ′  S , 166 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 34 ′  S , 166 ° 48 ′  E
Region ISO NZ-STL
Country : New Zealand
region Southland
Sea access Tasman Sea
Data about the sound
entrance 7th 000 m wide
length around 32.5 km
width Max. 2.5 km
Coastline around 110 km
Tributaries numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks)
Islands Breaksea Island , Wairaki Island , Hāwea Island , nine islands of the Gilbert Islands , Entry Island , two islands of the Harbor Islands , five islands of the John Islands

The Breaksea Sound ( Māori Te Puaitaha ) is a fjord on the South Island of New Zealand .

geography

The approximately 32.5 km long Breaksea Sound is located around 60 km west-southwest of Te Anau on the southwest part of the west coast of the South Island. The sound , which is divided into the two inlets Vancouver Arm and Broughton Arm after around 19 km , has a coastline of around 110 km and is around 2.5 km at its widest point. The entrance to the sound is around 7 km wide. The mountains surrounding the sound rise to over 1,300  m .

The Dagg Sound is located approximately 11 km north and the Dusky Sound , to which a connection via the Acheron Passage exists and the approximately 17 km long and 15 km wide island Resolution Iceland lies between them, some 18 km south.

geology

The Breaksea 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 the rising sea level. 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.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed March 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Coordinates and longitudes were partly made using Google Earth Version 7.1.8.3036 on March 5, 2018.
  3. ^ A b Milford Sound & Doubtful Sound . (PDF 1.1 MB) Destination Fiordland , November 2016, accessed on May 3, 2019 (English).
  4. ^ Section C The Marlborough Costal Environment . (PDF 3.98 MB) Marlborough District Council , June 2014, p. 34 , accessed on May 3, 2019 .