Long sound

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Long Sound
Māori: Te Tapuwae o Hua
Geographical location
Long Sound (New Zealand)
Long sound
Coordinates 45 ° 59 ′  S , 166 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′  S , 166 ° 49 ′  E
Region ISO NZ-STL
Country : New Zealand
region Southland
Sea access via the Preservation Inlet to the Tasman Sea
Data about the sound
entrance 1 130 m wide
length around 26 km
width Max. 2.43 km
Coastline around 77 km
Tributaries numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks)
Islands Only Islands

The Long Sound ( Māori Te Tapuwae o Hua ) is a fjord on the South Island of New Zealand .

geography

The approximately 26 km long Long Sound is located around 70 km west of Tuatapere on the southwest coast of the South Island. The sound has a coastline of around 77 km and is around 2.43 km at its widest point. The entrance to the sound is around 1.1 km wide and accesses the Tasman Sea via the adjacent Preservation Inlet . The Long Sound is only about 126 m wide in its southwestern area from the Istmus Sound , which leads to a nameless peninsula, almost 7 km long . The peninsula is located between the southern part of Long Sound and Istmus Sound . The mountains surrounding Long Sound rise to over 1,300  m .

geology

The Long 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 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

With the exception of access to the sound , the entire body of water was designated as a marine reserve under the name Te Tapuwae o Hua ( Long Sound ) Marine Reserve in 2005 . It covers an area of ​​3672  hectares , making it the largest marine reserve in the Fiordland region .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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, accessed on March 8, 2018 (English).
  4. ^ Section C The Marlborough Costal Environment . (PDF 3.98 MB) Marlborough District Council , June 2014, p. 34 , accessed on August 31, 2019 .
  5. ^ Fiordland Marine ( Te Moana a Atawhenua ) Reserves . (PDF 2.0 MB) Department of Conservation , 2010, p. 33 , accessed on March 8, 2018 (English).