Foveaux Street
| Foveaux Strait | ||
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 The Foveaux Strait is located in the Roaring Forties and is rarely so calm |
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| Connects waters | Tasman Sea | |
| with water | Pacific Ocean | |
| Separates land mass | Stewart Island | |
| of land mass | South Island New Zealand | |
| Data | ||
| Geographical location | 46 ° 41 ′ S , 168 ° 9 ′ E | |
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| length | 130 km | |
| Smallest width | 14 km | |
| Greatest depth | 120 m | |
| Coastal towns | Invercargill , bluff | |
| Islands | Ruapuke Island | |
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The Foveaux Strait ( English : Foveaux Strait ) is a strait between the South Island of New Zealand and Stewart Island .
geography
The strait is about 130 km long from Ruapuke Island to the small Solander Islands and between 14 km at Ruapuke Island and 50 km at Te Waewae Bay . Running from east to west, the strait deepens from 20 m to 120 m.
The south coast of the South Island runs north of the Foveaux Strait and has formed three large bays here, such as Te Waewae Bay , Oreti Beach and Toetoes Bay . This is also the port of Bluff , from which the Foveaux Strait thwarting Stewart Iceland can be achieved. To the south of the road are the Solander Islands, Stewart Island and Ruapuke Island .
Naming
The road was discovered for the Europeans by Owen Folger Smith in 1804 and is named after Joseph Foveaux , who was then Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales .
Events
The Foveaux Strait is located in the Roaring Forties , which are characterized by particularly rough weather. On May 13, 2006, six people drowned when their ship, the Kotuku , capsized near the Titi Islands by high waves. Only three of the total of nine people were able to save themselves by swimming. In the previous ten years, there had already been six ship accidents with eight fatalities.
Economical meaning
The Foveaux Strait is a center of New Zealand oyster farming .
Bays
Te Waewae Bay is the westernmost of the three major bays on the road. It is 27 km long, the west end of the bay is mountainous and the south end is the New Zealand Alps and Fiordland National Park . The town of Tuatapere is 7 km north of the bay on the banks of the Waiau River which flows into the bay.
The Oreti Beach is the middle bay and 26 km long. It lies between the town of Riverton and the mouth of the Aparima River in the northwest and the mouth of the New (or Oreti ) River in the southeast. The town of Invercargill is located on the New River Estuary 3 miles east of the bay.
The Toetoes Bay is the eastern of the three bays on the street. It is 30 km long the southern end of the Awarua Plain , a swamp area that extends about 15 km inland. The east end of the bay is close to Slope Point , the southernmost point of New Zealand's South Island, and merges here into The Catlins , a wooded hilly landscape.
Tiwai Point, with its aluminum smelter, is on a peninsula between the west end of the bay on the edge of Bluff Harbor. The Waituna - Lagoon is located approximately in the middle of the coast of the Bay, on the eastern end of the bay leads the Mataura River .
Web links
- Bryce Leslie Wood : Foveaux Strait . Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand , accessed August 10, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident Report - Capsize, Foundering & Loss of Life - Kotuku - May 13, 2006 . (PDF 1.3 MB) Maritime New Zealand , 2008, accessed on May 13, 2015 .