Cunaris sound

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Cunaris sound
Geographical location
Cunaris Sound (New Zealand)
Cunaris sound
Coordinates 45 ° 58 ′  S , 166 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 58 ′  S , 166 ° 42 ′  E
Region ISO NZ-STL
Country : New Zealand
region Southland
Sea access via the Chalky Inlet and the Eastern Passage to the Tasman Sea
Data about the sound
entrance 3 110 m wide
length around 10.5 km
width Max. 2.94 km
Coastline around 26 km
Tributaries Carrick River and numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks)
Islands Small Craft Harbor Islands

The Cunaris Sound is a fjord on the South Island of New Zealand .

geography

The approximately 10.5 km long Cunaris Sound is located around 76 km west-northwest of Tuatapere on the southwest coast of the South Island. The sound , which is divided into the two arms of Islet Cove and Cliff Cove to the east , has a coastline of around 26 km and is around 2.94 km at its widest point. To the northwest of the approximately 3.1 km wide entrance to Cunaris Sound , in which the small group of islands Small Craft Harbor Islands is located, is the entrance to Edwardson Sound . The mountains surrounding the Cunaris Sound rise to over 1000  m .

The sound finds access to the Tasman Sea via the Chalky Inlet leading to the south and the subsequent Eastern Passage .

geology

The Cunaris Sound is in the classical 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 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.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed March 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Coordinates and longitudes were partly made using Google Earth Version 7.1.8.3036 on March 8, 2018.
  3. ^ 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 12, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
  4. ^ Section C The Marlborough Costal Environment . (PDF 3.98 MB) Marlborough District Council , June 2014, p. 34 , accessed on August 31, 2019 .