Dagg sound

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Dagg sound
Geographical location
Dagg Sound (New Zealand)
Dagg sound
Coordinates 45 ° 24 ′  S , 166 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 24 ′  S , 166 ° 49 ′  E
Region ISO NZ-STL
Country : New Zealand
region Southland
Sea access Tasman Sea
Data about the sound
entrance 2 310 m wide
length around 13.6 km
width Max. 1.95 km
Coastline around 45 km
Tributaries numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks)

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

geography

The approximately 13.6 km long Dagg Sound is located around 65 km west of Te Anau on the southwestern part of the west coast of the South Island. The sound , which is divided into the two inlets of the Anchorage Arm and an unspecified narrower but longer arm from Schooner Point after around 8.5 km , has a coastline of around 45 km and is around 1.95 km at its widest point . The entrance to the sound is around 2.3 km wide. The mountains surrounding the sound rise to over 1,100  m .

The approximately 1 km wide Narrow Neck provides a level connection over land to the Crooked Arm of the Doubtful Sound .

geology

The Dagg Sound is a fjord in the classic sense , which, 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.

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, 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 .