Arapawa Island is a small island located in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north east tip of the South Island of New Zealand.

* 1986 – The Soviet liner runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Interisland Line's Arahura ( ferry ) | Arahura in the Marlborough Sounds after crossing the Cook Strait.

Smaller ferries operate in the Bay of Islands, Rawene ( Northland ), Auckland, Tauranga, Wellington, the Marlborough Sounds and Lyttelton ( Christchurch ), and between Bluff and Halfmoon Bay ( Stewart Island / Rakiura ).

** The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

D ' Urville Island is an island in the Marlborough Sounds along the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

A view from the summit of Mount Kaukau across Cook Strait to the Marlborough Sounds in the distance.

Because of its use as a whale migration route, whalers established bases in the Marlborough Sounds and in the Kapiti area.

In addition thirteen 6-inch ( 15 cm ) gun installations were constructed around Wellington, along the Makara coast, and at entrances to the Marlborough Sounds.

At its narrowest point, separate Cape Terawhiti in the North Island from Perano Head on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough Sounds.

The west ( South Island ) coast runs runs along Cloudy Bay and past the islands and entrances to the Marlborough Sounds.

A relatively shallow submarine valley lies across the northern end of the Marlborough Sounds.

The Cook Strait ferry Arahura ( ferry ) | Arahura in the Marlborough Sounds.

The small Marlborough Sounds settlement of Portage lies on the Kenepuru Sound which links Queen Charlotte Sound at Torea Bay.

The Marlborough Sounds are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels at the north of the South Island of New Zealand.

Covering some 4, 000 km² of sounds, islands, and peninsulas, the Marlborough Sounds lie at the South Island's north-easternmost point, between Tasman Bay in the west and Cloudy Bay in the south-east.

The Marlborough Sounds as seen from the Wellington-Picton ferry.

The Marlborough Sounds are connected to the Cook Strait at the north-east extreme.

The main channels of the Marlborough Sounds have calm water and are popular for sailing.

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The Marlborough Sounds at the northern tip of the South Island form a large network of rias.

A remarkable exception was an individual named Pelorus Jack who accompanied boats in Admiralty Bay in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds for more than 20 years.

After five weeks in the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island, the Tory sailed over to Te Whanganui a Tara (" The Big Harbour of Tara ") and Port Nicholson.

New Zealand has several locations to view and swim with dusky dolphins, notably in Marlborough Sounds.

Miles has written three other series of historical mysteries under the Marston pseudonym: one set in Restoration London ; another set in Victorian England during the 1850s against a background of the development of the railways ; and the third set during the military campaigns of the Duke of Marlborough.

Through a Queen Elizabeth II National Trust covenant, the trust administers about 16 ha of the Marlborough Road forest to the south of the Waipoua reserve.

* Marlborough Falcon Conservation Trust

In 2007 the Avenue Washlands Nature Reserve near Chesterfield was opened and won first place in the Conservation category for Restoration Sites in the British Trust for Ornithology ’ s Business Bird Challenge.

* Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust

* Lichfield and Hatherton Canal Restoration Trust

The Sussex Ouse Restoration Trust is promoting renovating the navigation.

The river between the town and Stratford is managed by the Upper Avon Navigation Trust, and below by the Lower Avon Navigation Trust, reflecting the administration of the river since the Restoration, when the lower Avon required only modest repairs, but significant investment was required above the town.

* The creation of a new wetland nature reserve in the Thames Marshes by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ), the Land Restoration Trust, Basildon District Council and Veolia.

It is owned by the Vulcan Restoration Trust, a registered charity, that keeps the systems and engines of XL426 serviceable, allowing it to be occasionally taxied-it is not airworthy.

* Clydebank Restoration Trust

The Trust is a joint partnership between the Native Forest Restoration Trust and Te Roroa, the Māori guardians of Waipoua.

The Trust co-operates with the Native Forest Restoration Trust, which operates the Professor McGregor Reserve.

On 22 January 2010, Government of Tamil Nadu has reconstituted the Adayar Poonga Trust as Chennai River Restoration Trust for restoration of Chennai rivers ( Adayar river, Cooum river ) including the Buckingham Canal.

Founded in 1980, the NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust is an organisation involved in forest restoration.

* NZ Native Forests Restoration Trust

A community group the Hakarimata Restoration Trust created in 2001 is helping care for the range.

Although the scheme was deemed to be unviable, interest in restoration continued, and the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust ( LHCRT ) was formed to promote the restoration of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal.

By August 2010, most of the work on a by-wash for lock 25, adjacent to the Borrowcop Locks Canal Park, had been carried out by members of the Restoration Trust, with help from the Waterways Recovery Group during weekend visits to Lichfield.

* Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust

Restoration is being carried out by a partnership of the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust and British Waterways.

* Pete ’ s Montgomery Canal web-site, incorporating the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust