George Sound
| George Sound | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 44 ° 54 ′ S , 167 ° 23 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-STL | |
| Country : | New Zealand | |
| region | Southland | |
| Sea access | Tasman Sea | |
| Data about the sound | ||
| entrance | 1 610 m wide | |
| length | around 20 km | |
| width | Max. 2.0 km | |
| Coastline | around 60 km | |
| places | George Sound hat | |
| Tributaries | George River , Edith River , Whitewater River and numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks) | |
| Islands | five smaller nameless islands | |
The George Sound is a fjord to be designated estuary on the South Island of New Zealand .
geography
The approximately 20 km long Bligh Sound is located around 55 km northwest of Te Anau on the southwestern part of the west coast of the South Island. At the end of the sound , the water divides into two arms, the South West Arm and the arm where the Alice Falls plunge from Lake Alice about 56 m into the depth. The Bligh Sound has a coastline of 60 km and is at its breitesten place around 2000 meters wide. The entrance to the sound measures 1610 m. The mountains surrounding the sound rise to over 1,300 m .
About 15 km southwest is the Caswell Sound and about 10 km northeast of the Bligh Sound .
geology
The George 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 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.
George Sound Route
To the sounds introduces a 17.8 km long trail that George Sound route is called. The track begins in the northern part of Lake Hankinson , where the Wapiti River flows into the lake. It follows the Wapiti River and leads past the northern side of Lake Thomson , then branches off the Thomson Hut over the Henry Pass to Lake Kathrine and finally follows the Katherine Creek to the George Sound Hut on the Sound, where the track ends.
Access to the trail can only be accessed from Te Anau , across Lake Te Anau to the northern end of its North West Arm , then along the outflow of Lake Hankinson and across the lake to its northern beginning.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e 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, accessed on March 2, 2018 (English).
- ^ Section C The Marlborough Costal Environment . (PDF 3.98 MB) Marlborough District Council , June 2014, p. 34 , accessed on August 31, 2019 .
- ↑ George Sound Route . (PDF 1.298 MB) Department of Conservation , 2010, accessed on March 2, 2018 .