Charles Sound
| Charles Sound | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 6 ′ S , 167 ° 8 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-STL | |
| Country : | New Zealand | |
| region | Southland | |
| Sea access | Tasman Sea | |
| Data about the sound | ||
| entrance | 1 700 m wide | |
| length | around 14 km | |
| width | Max. 1.2 km | |
| Coastline | around 52 km | |
| Tributaries | Windward River , Irene River and numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks) | |
| Islands | Eleanor Island , Fanny Island , Catherine Island , LLoyd Island and a few more small nameless islands | |
The Charles Sound is a fjord to be designated estuary on the South Island of New Zealand .
geography
The approximately 14 km long Charles Sound is located around 54 km northwest of Te Anau on the southwestern part of the west coast of the South Island. The sound has a coastline of around 52 km and is around 1.2 km wide at its widest point. The entrance to the sound measures around 1.7 km. Halfway through its length, the sound splits into two inlets, the northern one, called Emelius Arm , and around 6 km long, and the southern one, called Gold Arm , which is 7 km long. The latter has two islands at a narrow point, Fanny Island and Catherine Island , whereas the Emelius Arm finds Eleanor Island in the middle of the arm at its entrance . The mountains surrounding the sound rise to over 1,300 m .
About 6 km southwest is the Nancy Sound and about 10 km northeast of the Caswell Sound .
geology
The Charles Sound is a fjord in the classic sense 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 upper half of the Gold Arm was designated as a marine reserve in 2005 under the name Kahukura ( Gold Arm ) Marine Reserve . It covers an area of 464 hectares .
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 .
- ^ Fiordland Marine ( Te Moana a Atawhenua ) Reserves . (PDF 2.0 MB) Department of Conservation , 2010, pp. 20–21 , accessed on March 1, 2018 (English).