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- Foveaux_Strait abstract "Foveaux Strait (Māori: Te Ara a Kiwa) separates Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand's third largest island, from the South Island. Three large bays, Te Waewae Bay, Oreti Beach and Toetoes Bay, sweep along the strait's northern coast, which also hosts Bluff township and harbour. Across the strait lie the Solander Islands, Stewart Island/Rakiura and Ruapuke Island. The strait is about 130 km long (from Ruapuke Island to Little Solander Island), and it widens (from 14 km at Ruapuke Island to 50 km at Te Waewae Bay) and deepens (from 20 to 120 m) from east to west. The strait lies within the continental shelf area of New Zealand, and was probably dry land during the Pleistocene epoch.Captain Cook sighted the entrance to Foveaux Strait during his circumnavigation of the South Island in March 1770, but thought Stewart Island was joined to the mainland. The strait's European discoverer was Owen Folger Smith, who found it in 1804. It is named after Joseph Foveaux, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales at the time.Foveaux Strait is home to the Bluff oyster fishery, the oysters are harvested by a fleet of dredging boats between March and August each year. Oystering began on Stewart Island during the 1860s, and gradually moved into the strait with the discovery of larger oyster beds there in 1879.The strait is a rough and often treacherous stretch of water. In 2006, six muttonbirders died when their trawler sank while returning to Bluff. From the years 1998 to 2012 there were a total of 23 fatalities in the Strait.John van Leeuwen swam it on 7 February 1963, in a time of 13 hours 40 minutes.".
- Foveaux_Strait thumbnail NZStewardIslandAreaMap.png?width=300.
- Foveaux_Strait wikiPageID "997809".
- Foveaux_Strait wikiPageRevisionID "576206007".
- Foveaux_Strait hasPhotoCollection Foveaux_Strait.
- Foveaux_Strait subject Category:Coastline_of_New_Zealand.
- Foveaux_Strait subject Category:Geography_of_the_Southland_Region.
- Foveaux_Strait subject _Rakiura.
- Foveaux_Strait subject Category:Straits_of_New_Zealand.
- Foveaux_Strait point "-46.67 168.18".
- Foveaux_Strait type BodyOfWater109225146.
- Foveaux_Strait type Channel109241247.
- Foveaux_Strait type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Foveaux_Strait type Strait109446115.
- Foveaux_Strait type StraitsOfNewZealand.
- Foveaux_Strait type Thing100002452.
- Foveaux_Strait type YagoGeoEntity.
- Foveaux_Strait type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Foveaux_Strait type BodyOfWater.
- Foveaux_Strait type NaturalPlace.
- Foveaux_Strait type Place.
- Foveaux_Strait type Wikidata:Q532.
- Foveaux_Strait type BodyOfWater.
- Foveaux_Strait type Place.
- Foveaux_Strait type Location.
- Foveaux_Strait type SpatialThing.
- Foveaux_Strait comment "Foveaux Strait (Māori: Te Ara a Kiwa) separates Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand's third largest island, from the South Island. Three large bays, Te Waewae Bay, Oreti Beach and Toetoes Bay, sweep along the strait's northern coast, which also hosts Bluff township and harbour. Across the strait lie the Solander Islands, Stewart Island/Rakiura and Ruapuke Island.".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Cieśnina Foveaux".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Détroit de Foveaux".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Estrecho de Foveaux".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Estreito de Foveaux".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Foveaux Strait".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Foveauxstraße".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Straat Foveaux".
- Foveaux_Strait label "Фово (пролив)".
- Foveaux_Strait label "フォーボー海峡".
- Foveaux_Strait label "福沃海峡".
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Foveauxstraße.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Estrecho_de_Foveaux.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Détroit_de_Foveaux.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs フォーボー海峡.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs 포보_해협.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Straat_Foveaux.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Cieśnina_Foveaux.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Estreito_de_Foveaux.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs m.03xwwm.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Q1043467.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Q1043467.
- Foveaux_Strait sameAs Foveaux_Strait.
- Foveaux_Strait lat "-46.67".
- Foveaux_Strait long "168.18".
- Foveaux_Strait wasDerivedFrom Foveaux_Strait?oldid=576206007.
- Foveaux_Strait depiction NZStewardIslandAreaMap.png.
- Foveaux_Strait isPrimaryTopicOf Foveaux_Strait.