#cook strait

[wildfirekate]

Salty and stormy attempt at a sunset tonight!

[dream-world-universe]

Putangirua Pinnacles, Palliser Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand: The Putangirua Pinnacles (also known colloquially simply as The Pinnacles) are a geological formation and one of New Zealand's best examples of badlands erosion. They consist of a large number of earth pillars or hoodoos located at the head of a valley in the Aorangi Ranges, on the North Island of New Zealand, in the Wellington region. Wikipedia

[trans-clothmother]

Anyway I was lucky enough to travel on the interislander back in March, I had forgotten how pretty the Marlborough Sound/Te Tauihu-o-te-Waka is. Missing that summer weather already.

[rupertbbare]

Aotearoa/New Zealand from the ISS

[fortheloveoflight]

Cook Strait Ferry, New Zealand

The travel experience on a calm autumn evening, from Picton, New Zealand to Wellington across the Cook Strait on the ferry.

[soupy-george]

Holiday Season is seriously getting in the way of writing. But so pretty!

P.S. @colgatebluemintygel start yelling, I'll see if I can hear you 😆😆

[wellingtonnz]

Makara wind farm turbines from Mt Kaukau, views to Cook Strait and the South Island

[indizombie]

A Dutch East India Company cartographer conferred the name Nieuw Zeeland (or Nova Zeelandia in Latin) after the Dutch place that already had this name - specifically, Zeeland in the south-west of the Netherlands. Forts in modern-day Taiwan and Guyana were also called Zeelandia by early Dutch explorers. When James Cook arrived in 1769, Nieuw Zeeland was anglicised to New Zealand, as can be seen in his famous 1770 map. Cook renamed Te Moana-o-Raukawa as Cook Strait, and imposed dozens more English place names.

‘Putting Aotearoa on the map: New Zealand has changed its name before, why not again?’, RNZ