Caswell Sound
| Caswell Sound | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 1 ′ S , 167 ° 12 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-STL | |
| Country : | New Zealand | |
| region | Southland | |
| Sea access | Tasman Sea | |
| Data about the sound | ||
| entrance | 1 560 m wide | |
| length | around 15.5 km | |
| width | Max. 1.65 km | |
| Coastline | around 38 km | |
| places | Casswell Sound Hat | |
| Tributaries | Stillwater River and numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks) | |
| Islands | Styles Island | |
The Caswell Sound is a fjord to be designated estuary on the South Island of New Zealand .
geography
The approximately 15.5 km long Caswell Sound is located around 52 km northwest of Te Anau on the southwestern part of the west coast of the South Island. The sound has a coastline of around 38 km and is around 1650 m wide at its widest point. The entrance to the sound , in which the 510 m × 420 m large Styles Island is located, measures 1560 m.
The mountains surrounding the sound rise to over 1200 m . North of the 1286 m high Fleetwood Peak , the waters of Shirly Falls, coming from Lake Shirly , pour into Caswell Sound .
About 7 km southwest is the Charles Sound and about 15 km northeast of the George Sound .
geology
The Caswell 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 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.
Casswell Sound Hat
At the confluence of the Stillwater River with Caswell Sound, there is a corrugated iron hut that was built by the New Zealand-American Fiordland Expedition in 1949. The expedition was the Wapiti -Herde, 18 in number in 1905 on the shores of George Sound were suspended. Half of them were a gift from US President Theodore Roosevelt to New Zealand. The deer were protected until 1923 and could only be shot in a controlled manner until 1934. After that, the requirements for hunting animals were completely abolished.
The hut is still used by the hunters in a form modified since 1949.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed March 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Coordinates and longitudes were partly made using Google Earth version 7.1.8.3036 on March 2nd, 2018.
- ^ A b Milford Sound & Doubtful Sound . (PDF 1.1 MB) Destination Fiordland , November 2016, archived from the original on January 27, 2018 ; accessed on March 2, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
- ^ Section C The Marlborough Costal Environment . Marlborough District Council , June 2014, p. 34 , accessed August 31, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Caswell Sound Hut . Department of Conservation , accessed March 2, 2018 .