Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

Beginning in the east with the outlet to Lake Ontario, the bay runs west-southwest for to Picton ( although this section is also called Adolphus Reach ), where it turns north-northwest for another as far as Deseronto.

Attention is now drawn to Wellington ( Plummer ), who attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball, where Picton and other generals are present.

In the introduction the author notes that a " Terrible Revenge " is a popularized version of his longer monograph " Nemesis at Potsdam " ( 1-3 editions Routledge, 6th edition Picton Press, Rockland, Maine 2003 ).

Most of the park is over 600 metres above sea level, with altitudes ranging from 160 m at the Picton River to 1, 255 m at Hartz Peak.

The main large port is Picton on the mainland, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound.

At this point, the North Island is at its closest to the South Island, and the inter-island road, rail, and passenger ferry service between Picton and Wellington travels through the sounds.

* Picton, New South Wales is a town named in his honour by his military colleague, Lachlan Macquarie

* Picton Road is a Highway in Australia

* Picton Road is located in the Laventille area of Port of Spain, in Trinidad.

* Picton Barracks, Bulford, Wiltshire is HQ of UK 3 Div

* The Picton, a boys boarding house at Wellington College, Crowthorne, UK which is an English co-educational public school founded by Queen Victoria and Prime Minister The Earl of Derby in 1859 as the national monument to Britain's greatest military figure, the Duke of Wellington.

* Sir Thomas Picton School ( Ysgol Sir Thomas Picton ) is a mixed comprehensive school in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

There is also a fine double-bayed villa in the street named after him, Picton Lodge.

* There is a General Picton Inn in Porthcawl, a General Picton public house in Picton Place, Nantyffyllon, Maesteg.

Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road ( the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway ) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled to Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time.

She was nearly broken up in 1990, but is now preserved at Picton, New Zealand

Kaikoura is served by the TranzCoastal long-distance passenger train, which connects the town with Christchurch to the south, and Picton and the Cook Strait ferries to the north.

Picton is a town in the Marlborough region of New Zealand.

The town is named after Sir Thomas Picton, the Welsh military associate of the Duke of Wellington, who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

The township of Waikawa is a couple of minutes ' drive from Picton, practically part of the same town.

Notable examples include a set of trees in a public park of Picton, as well as robust specimens in the public and botanical parks of Queenstown.

The public house sign contains an image of Thomas Picton.

He owned a large amount of land very close to The General Picton public house.

During this period, he oversaw the construction of both the Blenheim – Picton and Dunedin – Balclutha railway lines, as well as the draining of parts of the Taieri Plains and the construction of tunnels on the Otago Central Railway, some of which are today open to the public as part of the Otago Central Rail Trail.

When Featherstone Osler and his bride ( Ellen Free Picton ) arrived in Canada they were nearly ship-wrecked again on Egg Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

On 26 November, the squadron set sail for Cape Horn, which was reached on 1 December, then anchored at Picton Island, where they stayed for three days distributing coal from a captured British collier, Drummuir, and hunting.

) Fullarton commenced a series of open enquiries on allegations against Picton and reported his unfavourable views on Picton's past actions at length to meetings of the commission.

In December 1803 he was arrested by order of the Privy Council and promptly released on bail set at £ 40, 000 ( Picton was able to give surety for half of this ; two West Indies plantation owners covered the remainder ).

The legal arguments, however, revolved on whether Spanish law permitted torture of suspects: on the evidence given, the jury decided that it did not and Picton was found guilty.

( The full court never reached a decision on this ; there were legal precedents to this general effect from the British occupation of Minorca — and a practical precedent from the British seizure of the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, but it remained to demonstrate that Picton should have known this, and by now Fullarton was dead and Picton a war hero.

According to Picton, the enemy responded by pummeling the 3rd with 40 to 50 cannon and a counter-attack on their right flank ( which was still open because they had captured the bridge so quickly ) causing the 3rd to lose 1, 800 men ( over one third of all Allied losses at the battle ) as they held their ground.

On the break-up of the division the officers presented Picton with a valuable service of plate, and on 24 June 1814 he received for the seventh time the thanks of the House of Commons for his great services.

* Picton Street, Montpelier, Bristol was built and named in honour of Sir Thomas Picton who, as mere Captain Picton, in 1783 endeared himself to Bristolians by bravely facing the rebellious 75th Battalion on College Green, Bristol and averting a military mutiny.

* Sir Thomas Picton at the Classic Encyclopedia, based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

In 2009, Highway 33 became the site of the first modern roundabout on a provincial highway west of Picton.

She included a reference to the port in her short story " The Voyage " ( in the collection The Garden Party ), which is " an account of a trip to Picton from Wellington on the Cook Strait ferry ".

According to Picton, the fighting by the 3rd was so intense at the Battle of Vitoria, that the division lost 1, 800 men ( over one third of all Allied losses at the battle ) having taken a key bridge and village, where they were subjected to fire by 40 to 50 cannons, and a counter-attack on the right flank ( which was open because the rest of the army had not kept pace ).

Exceeding his orders, Thomas Picton mounted a full scale attack on the Pont Jumeaux with his 3rd Division and was repulsed with 400 casualties.

Interisland ferries use Tory Channel and Queen Charlotte Sound on their journeys between Picton and Wellington in the North Island.

It would also allow fast ferries to operate at higher speeds than they can in the ecologically sensitive Marlborough Sounds and remove the steep grades on the railway line that lead out of Picton.

While a new port at Clifford Bay would have an impact on the economy of Picton, there are positive options to focus Picton as a tourist centre, and the gateway to the Marlborough Sounds.