List of sounds and inlets of Fiordland explained

The following is a list of the sounds and inlets or similar features which punctuate the coast of Fiordland, in southwestern New Zealand, in geographic order from north to south:

• Big Bay
• Martins Bay
• Milford Sound
• Poison Bay
• Sutherland Sound
• Hāwea / Bligh Sound
  • Bounty Haven
• George Sound
  • South West Arm
• Looking Glass Bay
• Caswell Sound
• Charles Sound
  • Emelius Arm
• Hinenui / Nancy Sound
  • Foot Arm
• Thompson Sound
  • Bradshaw Sound (also Doubtful Sound)
    • Precipice Cove
    • Gaer Arm
• Doubtful Sound / Patea, and its arms:
  • Malaspina Reach
    • Hall Arm
    • Crooked Arm
  • First Arm
• Dagg Sound
  • Anchorage Arm
• Breaksea Sound, and its arms:
  • Vancouver Arm
  • Broughton Arm
  • Acheron Passage (linked to Dusky Sound)
    • Wet Jacket Arm
• Tamatea / Dusky Sound
  • Supper Cove
  • Fanny Bay
  • Cascade Cove
• Taiari / Chalky Inlet, and its arms:
  • Moana-whenua-pōuri / Edwardson Sound
  • Te Korowhakaunu / Kanáris Sound^[1]
• Rakituma / Preservation Inlet, and its arms:
  • Isthmus Sound
  • Useless Bay
  • Te Awaroa / Long Sound
• Lake Hakapoua (divided from sea by a landslide in 1915)^[2]

Many of the sounds and inlets were given dual names in 2019.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Proposal considered by the Board on 20 April 2021 for: Te Korowhakaunu / Canaris Sound, or Te Korowhakaunu / Kanaris Sound, or Te Korowhakaunu / Kanáris Sound . Land Information New Zealand . 5 January 2022.
2. Trapped sea water in Lake Hakapoua, New Zealand (Note). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 22. 2. 1988. 293–294. B. R. Stanton . R. A. Pickrill . 10.1080/00288330.1988.9516301 .
3. News: More than 20 places receive dual English and Māori names from Land Information New Zealand. Radio New Zealand. 26 December 2019.