Nancy Sound

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Nancy Sound
Geographical location
Nancy Sound (New Zealand)
Nancy Sound
Coordinates 45 ° 8 ′  S , 167 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 8 ′  S , 167 ° 4 ′  E
Region ISO NZ-STL
Country : New Zealand
region Southland
Sea access Tasman Sea
Data about the sound
entrance 1 180 m wide
length around 15 km
width Max. 1.22 km
Coastline around 34 km
Tributaries numerous larger and smaller creeks and streams (brooks)
Islands Entrance Island and a small 44  m high island at Anxiety Point

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

geography

The 15 km long Nancy Sound is located around 54 km northwest of Te Anau on the southwest part of the west coast of the South Island. The sound has a coastline of around 34 km and is around 1220 m wide at its widest point. The entrance to the sound , in which the island Entrance Island and a small 44  m high island at Anxiety Point are located, measures around 1180 m. The mountains surrounding the sound rise to over 1200  m .

About 7 km southwest is the Thompson Sound and about 6 km northeast of the Charles Sound .

geology

The Nancy Sound is a fjord in the classic sense 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 2, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Coordinates and longitudes were partly made using Google Earth version 7.1.8.3036 on March 2nd, 2018.
  3. ^ A b Milford Sound & Doubtful Sound . (PDF 1.1 MB) Destination Fiordland , November 2016, accessed on May 3, 2019 (English).
  4. ^ Section C The Marlborough Costal Environment . (PDF 3.98 MB) Marlborough District Council , June 2014, p. 34 , accessed on August 31, 2019 .