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<div class="page-heading"> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading">Cook Strait</h1> <div class="tagline"></div> </div> <ul id="p-associated-pages" class="minerva__tab-container"> <li class="minerva__tab selected mw-list-item"> <a class="minerva__tab-text" href="/wiki/Cook_Strait" rel="" data-event-name="tabs.main">Article</a> </li> <li class="minerva__tab mw-list-item"> <a class="minerva__tab-text" href="/wiki/Talk:Cook_Strait" rel="discussion" data-event-name="tabs.talk">Talk</a> </li> </ul> <nav class="page-actions-menu"> <ul id="p-views" class="page-actions-menu__list"> <li id="language-selector" class="page-actions-menu__list-item"> <a role="button" href="#p-lang" data-mw="interface" data-event-name="menu.languages" title="Language" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet language-selector"> Language </a> </li> <li id="page-actions-watch" 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.infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style>Cook Strait (<a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language" title="Māori language">Māori</a>: Te Moana-o-Raukawa, <a href="/wiki/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation">lit.</a> 'The Sea of <a href="/wiki/Raukaua" title="Raukaua">Raukawa</a>') is a <a href="/wiki/Strait" title="Strait">strait</a> that separates the <a href="/wiki/North_Island" title="North Island">North</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Island" title="South Island">South Islands</a> of New Zealand. The strait connects the <a href="/wiki/Tasman_Sea" title="Tasman Sea">Tasman Sea</a> on the northwest with the <a href="/wiki/South_Pacific_Ocean" class="mw-redirect" title="South Pacific Ocean">South Pacific Ocean</a> on the southeast. It is 22 kilometres (14 mi) wide at its narrowest point,<a href="#cite_note-McLintock-1">[1]</a> and has been described as "one of the most dangerous and unpredictable waters in the world".<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> Regular ferry services run across the strait between <a href="/wiki/Picton,_New_Zealand" title="Picton, New Zealand">Picton</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Marlborough_Sounds" title="Marlborough Sounds">Marlborough Sounds</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>. <table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color: #cedeff; font-size: 125%;">Cook Strait</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader nickname" style="font-size:100%; border-bottom: 1px solid #cedeff;">Te Moana-o-Raukawa (<a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language" title="Māori language">Māori</a>)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="line-height: 1.2; border-bottom: 1px solid #cedeff;"><a href="/wiki/File:Earth_from_Space-_Cook_Strait,_New_Zealand_ESA24912671.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Satellite view of Cook Strait with the North and South Islands visible at either side of the image" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Earth_from_Space-_Cook_Strait%2C_New_Zealand_ESA24912671.jpg/264px-Earth_from_Space-_Cook_Strait%2C_New_Zealand_ESA24912671.jpg" decoding="async" width="264" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Earth_from_Space-_Cook_Strait%2C_New_Zealand_ESA24912671.jpg/396px-Earth_from_Space-_Cook_Strait%2C_New_Zealand_ESA24912671.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Earth_from_Space-_Cook_Strait%2C_New_Zealand_ESA24912671.jpg/528px-Earth_from_Space-_Cook_Strait%2C_New_Zealand_ESA24912671.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5007" data-file-height="3666"></a><div class="infobox-caption">Satellite image of Cook Strait taken by the <a href="/wiki/Sentinel-2" title="Sentinel-2">Sentinel-2</a> mission</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="line-height: 1.2; border-bottom: 1px solid #cedeff;"><div class="switcher-container"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output 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href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238443738"><div class="center"><div class="locmap" style="width:256px;float:none;clear:both;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><div style="width:256px;padding:0"><div style="position:relative;width:256px"><a href="/wiki/File:Oceania_laea_relief_location_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Map of New Zealand with mark showing location of Cook Strait"><img alt="Map of New Zealand with mark showing location of Cook Strait" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Oceania_laea_relief_location_map.jpg/256px-Oceania_laea_relief_location_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="256" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Oceania_laea_relief_location_map.jpg/384px-Oceania_laea_relief_location_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Oceania_laea_relief_location_map.jpg/512px-Oceania_laea_relief_location_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1181" data-file-height="1013"></a><div class="od notheme" style="top:80.091%;left:53.148%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><img alt="Map of New Zealand with mark showing location of Cook Strait" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64"></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Cook Strait</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Cook Strait (Oceania)</div>Show map of Oceania</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Cook_Strait&params=41_13_46_S_174_28_59_E_region:NZ-MBH_type:waterbody_scale:1000000">41°13′46″S 174°28′59″E / 41.22944°S 174.48306°E / -41.22944; 174.48306</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">Basin</a> countries</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="border-bottom: #cedeff 1px solid"></th></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Min. width</th><td class="infobox-data">22 km (14 mi)</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Average depth</th><td class="infobox-data">128 m (420 ft)</td></tr></tbody></table> The strait is named after <a href="/wiki/James_Cook" title="James Cook">James Cook</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe" title="Ethnic groups in Europe">European</a> commander to sail through it, in 1770.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> In <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_language" title="Māori language">Māori</a> it is named Te Moana-o-Raukawa, which means The Sea of Raukawa. <a href="/wiki/Raukaua" title="Raukaua">Raukaua</a> is a type of woody shrub native to New Zealand.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> The waters of Cook Strait are dominated by strong <a href="/wiki/Tidal_flow" class="mw-redirect" title="Tidal flow">tidal flows</a>. The tidal flow through Cook Strait is unusual in that the tidal elevation at the ends of the strait are almost exactly out of phase with one another, so high water on one side meets low water on the other. A number of ships have been wrecked in Cook Strait with significant loss of life, such as the Maria in 1851,<a href="#cite_note-66EncycShips-6">[6]</a> the City of Dunedin in 1865,<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> the St Vincent in 1869,<a href="#cite_note-66EncycShips-6">[6]</a> the Lastingham in 1884,<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> <a href="/wiki/SS_Penguin" title="SS Penguin">SS Penguin</a> in 1909<a href="#cite_note-SSPenguin-9">[9]</a> and <a href="/wiki/TEV_Wahine" title="TEV Wahine">TEV Wahine</a> in 1968. <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#History">1 History</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Geography">2 Geography</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Oceanography">3 Oceanography</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Marine_life">4 Marine life</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Transport">5 Transport</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Ferry_services">5.1 Ferry services</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Shipwrecks_and_major_events">5.2 Shipwrecks and major events</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="#Air_services">5.3 Air services</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Cables">6 Cables</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#Tidal_power">7 Tidal power</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Swimming">8 Swimming</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#See_also">9 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#References">10 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Sources_cited">11 Sources cited</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#External_links">12 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Te_Whanganui-a-Tara#Legend_of_Whanganui-a-Tara" class="mw-redirect" title="Te Whanganui-a-Tara">The legend of Whanganui-a-Tara</a></div> In <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_mythology" title="Māori mythology">Māori legend</a>, Cook Strait was discovered by <a href="/wiki/Kupe" title="Kupe">Kupe</a> the navigator. Kupe followed in his canoe a monstrous octopus called <a href="/wiki/Te_Wheke-a-Muturangi" title="Te Wheke-a-Muturangi">Te Wheke-a-Muturangi</a> across Cook Strait and destroyed it in <a href="/wiki/Tory_Channel" title="Tory Channel">Tory Channel</a> or at <a href="/wiki/P%C4%81tea" class="mw-redirect" title="Pātea">Pātea</a>. When Dutch explorer <a href="/wiki/Abel_Tasman" title="Abel Tasman">Abel Tasman</a> first saw New Zealand in 1642, he thought Cook Strait was a <a href="/wiki/Bight_(geography)" title="Bight (geography)">bight</a> closed to the east. He named it Zeehaen's Bight, after the Zeehaen, one of the two ships in his expedition. In 1769 James Cook established that it was a <a href="/wiki/Strait" title="Strait">strait</a>, which formed a navigable waterway.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Cook Strait attracted European settlers in the early 19th century. Because of its use as a <a href="/wiki/Whale" title="Whale">whale</a> migration route, <a href="/wiki/Whaler" title="Whaler">whalers</a> established bases in the <a href="/wiki/Marlborough_Sounds" title="Marlborough Sounds">Marlborough Sounds</a>, based out of Tory Channel and <a href="/wiki/Port_Underwood" title="Port Underwood">Port Underwood</a>, and also in the <a href="/wiki/K%C4%81piti_Coast" class="mw-redirect" title="Kāpiti Coast">Kāpiti</a> area.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> From the late 1820s until the mid-1960s <a href="/wiki/Arapaoa_Island" title="Arapaoa Island">Arapaoa Island</a> was a base for whaling in the Sounds. Perano Head on the east coast of the island was the principal whaling station for the area from 1911.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> The houses built by the Perano family are now operated as tourist accommodation.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> During the 1820s <a href="/wiki/Te_Rauparaha" title="Te Rauparaha">Te Rauparaha</a> led a Māori migration to, and the conquest and settlement of, the Cook Strait region. In 1822 <a href="/wiki/Ng%C4%81ti_Toa" title="Ngāti Toa">Ngāti Toa</a> migrated to Cook Strait region, led by <a href="/wiki/Te_Rauparaha" title="Te Rauparaha">Te Rauparaha</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] From 1840 more permanent settlements sprang up, first at Wellington, then at <a href="/wiki/Nelson,_New_Zealand" title="Nelson, New Zealand">Nelson</a> and at <a href="/wiki/Whanganui" title="Whanganui">Whanganui</a> (Petre). At this period the settlers saw Cook Strait in a broader sense than today's ferry-oriented New Zealanders: for them the strait stretched from <a href="/wiki/Taranaki" title="Taranaki">Taranaki</a> to <a href="/wiki/Cape_Campbell" title="Cape Campbell">Cape Campbell</a>, so these early towns all clustered around "Cook Strait" (or "Cook's Strait", in the pre-Geographic Board usage of the times) as the central feature and central waterway of the new colony. <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pelorus_Jack.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Pelorus_Jack.jpg/100px-Pelorus_Jack.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="158" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="328" data-file-height="519"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 100px;height: 158px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Pelorus_Jack.jpg/100px-Pelorus_Jack.jpg" data-width="100" data-height="158" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Pelorus_Jack.jpg/150px-Pelorus_Jack.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Pelorus_Jack.jpg/200px-Pelorus_Jack.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pelorus_Jack" title="Pelorus Jack">Pelorus Jack</a></figcaption></figure> Between 1888 and 1912 a <a href="/wiki/Risso%27s_dolphin" title="Risso's dolphin">Risso's dolphin</a> named <a href="/wiki/Pelorus_Jack" title="Pelorus Jack">Pelorus Jack</a> became famous for meeting and escorting ships around Cook Strait. Pelorus Jack was usually spotted in Admiralty Bay between Cape Francis and Collinet Point, near <a href="/wiki/D%27Urville_Island,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="D'Urville Island, New Zealand">French Pass</a>, a channel used by ships travelling between <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a> and Nelson. Pelorus Jack is also remembered after he was the subject of a failed assassination attempt. He was later protected by a 1904 New Zealand law.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> At times when New Zealand feared invasion, various <a href="/wiki/Coastal_fortifications_of_New_Zealand" title="Coastal fortifications of New Zealand">coastal fortifications</a> were constructed to defend Cook Strait. During the Second World War, two 23 cm (9.1 in) gun installations were constructed on <a href="/wiki/Wrights_Hill_Fortress" title="Wrights Hill Fortress">Wrights Hill</a> behind Wellington. These guns could range 28 kilometres (17 mi) across Cook Strait. In addition thirteen 15 cm (6 in) gun installations were constructed around Wellington, along the <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81kara" title="Mākara">Mākara</a> coast, and at entrances to the Marlborough Sounds. The remains of most of these fortifications can still be seen. The <a href="/wiki/Pencarrow_Head_Lighthouse" title="Pencarrow Head Lighthouse">Pencarrow Head Lighthouse</a> at the entrance from Cook Strait to <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Harbour" title="Wellington Harbour">Wellington Harbour</a> was the first permanent lighthouse built in New Zealand. Its first keeper, Mary Jane Bennett, was the only female lighthouse keeper in New Zealand's history. The light was decommissioned in 1935 when it was replaced by the <a href="/wiki/Baring_Head_Lighthouse" title="Baring Head Lighthouse">Baring Head Lighthouse</a>. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG/220px-BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 165px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG/220px-BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG" data-width="220" data-height="165" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG/330px-BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG/440px-BrothersFromKoamaru.JPG 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>View from Cape Koamaru of the Brothers Islands with Wellington west coast on the horizon</figcaption></figure> Approximately 18,000 years ago during the <a href="/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum" title="Last Glacial Maximum">Last Glacial Maximum</a> when sea levels were over 100 metres (330 feet) lower than present day levels, Cook Strait was a deep harbour of the Pacific Ocean, disconnected from the Tasman Sea by the vast coastal plains which formed at the <a href="/wiki/South_Taranaki_Bight" title="South Taranaki Bight">South Taranaki Bight</a> which connected the North and South islands. Sea levels began to rise 7,000 years ago, eventually separating the islands and linking Cook Strait to the Tasman Sea.<a href="#cite_note-Niwa-16">[16]</a> The strait runs in a general NW-SE direction, with the South Island on the west side and North Island on the east. At its narrowest point, 22 kilometres (14 mi) separate <a href="/wiki/Cape_Terawhiti" title="Cape Terawhiti">Cape Terawhiti</a> in the North Island from <a href="/wiki/Perano_Head" class="mw-redirect" title="Perano Head">Perano Head</a> on <a href="/wiki/Arapaoa_Island" title="Arapaoa Island">Arapaoa Island</a> in the Marlborough Sounds.<a href="#cite_note-McLintock-1">[1]</a> Perano Head is actually further north than Cape Terawhiti. In good weather one can see clearly across the strait. The west (South Island) coast runs 30 kilometres (19 mi) along <a href="/wiki/Cloudy_Bay" title="Cloudy Bay">Cloudy Bay</a> and past the islands and entrances to the Marlborough Sounds. The east (North Island) coast runs 40 kilometres (25 mi) along <a href="/wiki/Palliser_Bay" title="Palliser Bay">Palliser Bay</a>, crosses the entrance to <a href="/wiki/Wellington_harbour" class="mw-redirect" title="Wellington harbour">Wellington Harbour</a>, past some Wellington suburbs and continues another 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81kara_Beach" title="Mākara Beach">Mākara Beach</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_Brothers_(islands),_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="The Brothers (islands), New Zealand">The Brothers</a> is a group of tiny islands in Cook Strait off the east coast of Arapaoa Island. North Brother island in this small chain is a sanctuary for the rare <a href="/wiki/Brothers_Island_tuatara" class="mw-redirect" title="Brothers Island tuatara">Brothers Island tuatara</a>, while the largest of the islands is the site of the Brothers Island Lighthouse.<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg/220px-Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3753" data-file-height="2324"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 136px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg/220px-Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="136" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg/330px-Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg/440px-Coast_of_Wellington_Region_from_Cook_Strait.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Wellington's coast, seen from Cook Strait</figcaption></figure>The shores of Cook Strait on both sides are mostly composed of steep cliffs. The beaches of Cloudy Bay, <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Bay,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Clifford Bay, New Zealand">Clifford Bay</a>, and Palliser Bay shoal gently down to 140 metres (460 ft), where there is a more or less extensive submarine plateau. The rest of the bottom topography is complex. To the east is the Cook Strait Canyon with steep walls descending eastwards into the <a href="/wiki/Bathyal" class="mw-redirect" title="Bathyal">bathyal</a> depths of the <a href="/wiki/Hikurangi_Trough" title="Hikurangi Trough">Hikurangi Trough</a>. To the north-west lies the Narrows Basin, where water is 300 and 400 metres (980 and 1,310 ft) deep. Fisherman's Rock in the north end of the Narrows Basin rises to within a few metres of low tide, and is marked by waves breaking in rough weather. A relatively shallow submarine valley lies across the northern end of the Marlborough Sounds. The bottom topography is particularly irregular around the coast of the South Island where the presence of islands, underwater rocks, and the entrances to the sounds, create violent eddies.<a href="#cite_note-McLintock-1">[1]</a> The strait has an average depth of 128 metres (420 ft).[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1855 a <a href="/wiki/1855_Wairarapa_earthquake" title="1855 Wairarapa earthquake">severe earthquake</a> occurred on both sides of Cook Strait.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 2013 two large earthquakes measuring <a href="/wiki/2013_Seddon_earthquake" title="2013 Seddon earthquake">6.5</a> and <a href="/wiki/2013_Lake_Grassmere_earthquake" title="2013 Lake Grassmere earthquake">6.6</a> on the Richter Scale struck Cook Strait, causing significant damage in the town of <a href="/wiki/Seddon,_New_Zealand" title="Seddon, New Zealand">Seddon</a>, with minor to moderate damage in Wellington.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Oceanography">Oceanography</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Oceanography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 320px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External images</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><noscript><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 16px;height: 16px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" data-alt="image icon" data-width="16" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element">  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.niwa.co.nz/our-science/coasts/research-projects/all/physical-hazards-affecting-coastal-margins-and-the-continental-shelf/news/cookmov">Animation of the tides in Cook Strait</a> – <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Water_and_Atmospheric_Research" title="National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research">NIWA</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><noscript><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 16px;height: 16px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" data-alt="image icon" data-width="16" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element">  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.niwa.co.nz/our-science/coasts/research-projects/all/physical-hazards-affecting-coastal-margins-and-the-continental-shelf/news/m2mov">Animation of the lunar (M2) tide component around NZ</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><noscript><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 16px;height: 16px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" data-alt="image icon" data-width="16" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element">  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.teara.govt.nz/en/engineering-on-the-sea-floor/1/2">Cook Strait currents before and after high tide at Wellington</a> – <a href="/wiki/Te_Ara:_The_Encyclopedia_of_New_Zealand" title="Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand">Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><noscript><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 16px;height: 16px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" data-alt="image icon" data-width="16" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element">  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://natlib.govt.nz/visiting/wellington/unfolding-the-map/coastal-charting">Underwater topography of Cook Strait</a> – <a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_New_Zealand" title="National Library of New Zealand">National Library of New Zealand</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Cook_Strait_tides" class="mw-redirect" title="Cook Strait tides">Cook Strait tides</a></div> The waters of Cook Strait are dominated by strong <a href="/wiki/Ocean_power_in_New_Zealand#Tidal_power" title="Ocean power in New Zealand">tidal flows</a>. The tidal flow through Cook Strait is unusual in that the tidal elevation at the ends of the strait are almost exactly out of phase with one another, so high water on one side meets low water on the other.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> This is because the main <a href="/wiki/M2_lunar_tide" class="mw-redirect" title="M2 lunar tide">M2 lunar tide</a> component that happens about twice per day (actually 12.42 hours)<a href="#cite_note-NASA2016-18">[18]</a> circulates anti-clockwise around New Zealand, and is out of phase at each end of the strait (see animation on the right). On the Pacific Ocean side the high tide occurs five hours before it occurs at the Tasman Sea side. On one side is high tide and on the other is low tide. The difference in sea level can drive tidal currents up to 2.5 metres per second (5 knots) across Cook Strait.<a href="#cite_note-teara_tides-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-benign-20">[20]</a> There are numerous computer models of the tidal flow through Cook Strait. While the tidal components are readily realizable,<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> the residual flow is more difficult to model.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> Probably the most prolific oceanographer to research the strait was <a href="/wiki/Ron_Heath" title="Ron Heath">Ron Heath</a> based at the <a href="/wiki/N.Z._Oceanographic_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="N.Z. Oceanographic Institute">N.Z. Oceanographic Institute</a>. He produced a number of studies including analysis of tides <a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> which identified the presence of a "virtual amphidrome" in the region. Heath also quantified a best estimate for the time of the "residual current" (i.e. net current after averaging out the tidal influence) in the strait.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> This continues to be a topic of research with computer simulations combining with large datasets to refine the estimate.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cook_Sampling.png" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Cook_Sampling.png/220px-Cook_Sampling.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="223" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="2219" data-file-height="2252"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 223px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Cook_Sampling.png/220px-Cook_Sampling.png" data-width="220" data-height="223" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Cook_Sampling.png/330px-Cook_Sampling.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Cook_Sampling.png/440px-Cook_Sampling.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Historical ocean sampling locations within Cook Strait, New Zealand.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/400px--Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="400" height="225" data-durationhint="31" data-mwtitle="Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9"' data-width="1920" data-height="1080"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"' data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f6/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm/Global_surface_elevation_of_M2_ocean_tide.webm.360p.webm" type='video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"' data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360"></source></video><figcaption>Global surface elevation of the M2 ocean tide (NASA).<a href="#cite_note-NASA2016-18">[18]</a> This computer animation shows the peaks and troughs of the M2 tides sweeping anticlockwise around New Zealand. When it is high tide on one side of Cook Strait, it is low tide on the other side. For this reason, the strait can experience exceptionally fast tidal flows.</figcaption></figure> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> Despite the strong currents, there is almost zero tidal height change in the centre of the strait. Instead of the tidal surge flowing in one direction for six hours and then in the reverse direction for six hours, a particular surge might last eight or ten hours with the reverse surge enfeebled. In especially boisterous weather conditions the reverse surge can be negated, and the flow can remain in the same direction through three surge periods and longer. This is indicated on marine charts for the region.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Furthermore, the submarine ridges running off from the coast complicate the ocean flow and turbulence.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> The substantial levels of turbulence have been compared to that observed in the <a href="/wiki/Straits_of_Gibraltar" class="mw-redirect" title="Straits of Gibraltar">Straits of Gibraltar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seymour_Narrows" title="Seymour Narrows">Seymour Narrows</a> in <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Marine_life">Marine life</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marine life" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> Cook Strait is an important habitat for many <a href="/wiki/Cetacean" class="mw-redirect" title="Cetacean">cetacean</a> species. Several dolphins (<a href="/wiki/Bottlenose_dolphin" title="Bottlenose dolphin">bottlenose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Common_dolphin" title="Common dolphin">common</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dusky_dolphin" title="Dusky dolphin">dusky</a>) frequent the area along with <a href="/wiki/Killer_whale" class="mw-redirect" title="Killer whale">killer whales</a> and the endemic <a href="/wiki/Hector%27s_dolphin" title="Hector's dolphin">Hector's dolphins</a>. <a href="/wiki/Long-finned_pilot_whale" title="Long-finned pilot whale">Long-finned pilot whales</a> often strand en masse at <a href="/wiki/Golden_Bay_/_Mohua" title="Golden Bay / Mohua">Golden Bay</a>. The famous <a href="/wiki/Pelorus_Jack" title="Pelorus Jack">Pelorus Jack</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Risso%27s_dolphin" title="Risso's dolphin">Risso's dolphin</a> being observed escorting the ships between 1888 and 1912, though this species is not a common visitor to the New Zealand's waters. Large migratory whales attracted many <a href="/wiki/Whaler" title="Whaler">whalers</a> to the area in the winter. Currently, an annual survey of counting <a href="/wiki/Humpback_whale" title="Humpback whale">humpback whales</a> is taken by <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Conservation_(New_Zealand)" title="Department of Conservation (New Zealand)">Department of Conservation</a> and former whalers help DOC to spot animals by using several vantage points along the strait such as on <a href="/wiki/Stephens_Island,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Stephens Island, New Zealand">Stephens Island</a>. Other occasional visitors include <a href="/wiki/Southern_right_whale" title="Southern right whale">southern right whales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blue_whale" title="Blue whale">blue whales</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sei_whale" title="Sei whale">sei whales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sperm_whale" title="Sperm whale">sperm whales</a>. <a href="/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_and_sightings" title="List of giant squid specimens and sightings">Giant squid specimens</a> have been washed ashore around Cook Strait or found in the stomachs of sperm whales off <a href="/wiki/Kaik%C5%8Dura" title="Kaikōura">Kaikōura</a>. A colony of male <a href="/wiki/Arctocephalus_forsteri" title="Arctocephalus forsteri">fur seals</a> has long been established near <a href="/wiki/Pariwhero_/_Red_Rocks" title="Pariwhero / Red Rocks">Pariwhero / Red Rocks</a> on the south Wellington coast.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Cook Strait offers good <a href="/wiki/Big-game_fishing" title="Big-game fishing">game fishing</a>. <a href="/wiki/Albacore" title="Albacore">Albacore tuna</a> can be caught from January to May. <a href="/wiki/Swordfish" title="Swordfish">Broadbill swordfish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hyperoglyphe_antarctica" title="Hyperoglyphe antarctica">bluenose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isurus" title="Isurus">mako sharks</a> and the occasional <a href="/wiki/Marlin" title="Marlin">marlin</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_shark" class="mw-redirect" title="White shark">white shark</a> can also be caught.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Transport" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 270px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><noscript><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 16px;height: 16px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" data-alt="video icon" data-width="16" data-height="16" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element">  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUWascqCBe0&ab_channel=vert999">Ship entering a Cook Strait swell</a> <div style="float: right;">– YouTube</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ferries_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Ferries_2016.jpg/220px-Ferries_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="184" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="536"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 184px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Ferries_2016.jpg/220px-Ferries_2016.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="184" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Ferries_2016.jpg/330px-Ferries_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Ferries_2016.jpg/440px-Ferries_2016.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Cook Strait ferries in Wellington Harbour</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ferry_services">Ferry services</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Ferry services" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_New_Zealand#Ferry_services" title="Transport in New Zealand">Transport in New Zealand § Ferry services</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Marlborough_Sounds#Ferries_and_marine_farms" title="Marlborough Sounds">Marlborough Sounds § Ferries and marine farms</a></div> Regular <a href="/wiki/Ferry" title="Ferry">ferry</a> services run between <a href="/wiki/Picton,_New_Zealand" title="Picton, New Zealand">Picton</a> in the Marlborough Sounds and <a href="/wiki/Wellington" title="Wellington">Wellington</a>, operated by <a href="/wiki/KiwiRail" title="KiwiRail">KiwiRail</a> (the <a href="/wiki/Interislander" title="Interislander">Interislander</a>) and <a href="/wiki/StraitNZ" title="StraitNZ">StraitNZ</a> (Bluebridge). Both companies run services several times a day. Roughly half the crossing is in the strait, and the remainder within the Sounds. The journey covers 70 kilometres (43 mi) and takes about three hours. The strait often experiences rough water and heavy swells from strong winds, especially from the south. New Zealand's position directly athwart the <a href="/wiki/Roaring_Forties" title="Roaring Forties">roaring forties</a> means that the strait funnels westerly winds and deflects them into northerlies. As a result, ferry sailings are often disrupted and Cook Strait is regarded as one of the most dangerous and unpredictable waters in the world.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1962 the first ferry service to allow railway carriages, cars and trucks began with <a href="/wiki/GMV_Aramoana" title="GMV Aramoana">GMV Aramoana</a>.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> In 1994 the first fast-ferry service began operation across Cook Strait.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shipwrecks_and_major_events">Shipwrecks and major events</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Shipwrecks and major events" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable selfref">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Shipwrecks_of_the_Cook_Strait" title="Category:Shipwrecks of the Cook Strait">Category:Shipwrecks of the Cook Strait</a></div> In 1851 the barque <a href="/wiki/Maria_(1836_ship)" title="Maria (1836 ship)">Maria</a> wrecked on rocks at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Terawhiti" title="Cape Terawhiti">Cape Terawhiti</a>, killing 28 people.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1865 the paddle steamer <a href="/wiki/City_of_Dunedin_(ship)" title="City of Dunedin (ship)">City of Dunedin</a> sank, killing 50 to 60 people.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1869 St Vincent wrecked in <a href="/wiki/Palliser_Bay" title="Palliser Bay">Palliser Bay</a>, killing 20 people.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1884 Lastingham was wrecked at <a href="/wiki/Cape_Jackson,_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="Cape Jackson, New Zealand">Cape Jackson</a>, killing 18 people.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1909 <a href="/wiki/SS_Penguin" title="SS Penguin">SS Penguin</a> wrecked in Cook Strait, killing 75 people.<a href="#cite_note-SSPenguin-9">[9]</a> In 1968, the <a href="/wiki/TEV_Wahine" title="TEV Wahine">TEV Wahine</a>, a Wellington–<a href="/wiki/Lyttelton,_New_Zealand" title="Lyttelton, New Zealand">Lyttelton</a> ferry of the <a href="/wiki/Union_Company" title="Union Company">Union Company</a>, foundered at the entrance to <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Harbour" title="Wellington Harbour">Wellington Harbour</a> and capsized. Of the 610 passengers and 123 crew on board, 53 died.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> On 16 February 1986 the cruise ship <a href="/wiki/MS_Mikhail_Lermontov" title="MS Mikhail Lermontov">Mikhail Lermontov</a> struck rocks at Cape Jackson at the northern tip of the Marlborough Sounds and sank in Port Gore, with one person killed.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> In 2006, 14-metre (46 ft) waves resulted in the <a href="/wiki/Interislander" title="Interislander">Interislander</a> ferry <a href="/wiki/DEV_Aratere" title="DEV Aratere">DEV Aratere</a> slewing violently and heeling to 50 degrees. Three passengers and a crew member were injured, five rail wagons were toppled and many trucks and cars were heavily damaged. Maritime NZ's expert witness Gordon Wood claimed that if the ferry had capsized most passengers and crew would have been trapped inside and would have had no warning or time to put on lifejackets.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> In 1990 Stephen Preest made the first crossing and double crossing by hovercraft.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> In 2005, the retired frigate <a href="/wiki/HMNZS_Wellington_(F69)" title="HMNZS Wellington (F69)">HMNZS Wellington</a> was sunk in Cook Strait off the south coast of Wellington as an artificial reef.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Air_services">Air services</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Air services" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Cook_Strait_crossings_by_air" title="List of Cook Strait crossings by air">List of Cook Strait crossings by air</a></div> The first aeroplane flight across Cook Strait occurred in 1920,<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> jet aeroplane in 1946,[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] helicopter crossing in 1956,<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> glider crossing in 1957,<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> balloon crossing (by Roland Parsons and Rex Brereton) in 1975,<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> microlight aircraft in 1982,<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> autogyros in 1999,<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> paraglider (by Matt Standford) in 2013.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> In 2021 the first electric aircraft flight across Cook Strait, from <a href="/wiki/Omaka_Aerodrome" title="Omaka Aerodrome">Omaka Aerodrome</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Airport" title="Wellington Airport">Wellington Airport</a>, by Gary Freedman in a <a href="/wiki/Pipistrel_Alpha_Electro" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipistrel Alpha Electro">Pipistrel Alpha Electro</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> Air services began across Cook Strait in 1935.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Air lines which operate or have operated flights across Cook Strait include <a href="/wiki/Straits_Air_Freight_Express" title="Straits Air Freight Express">Straits Air Freight Express</a>, <a href="/wiki/Air2there" title="Air2there">Air2there</a>, <a href="/wiki/CityJet_(New_Zealand)" title="CityJet (New Zealand)">CityJet</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sounds_Air" title="Sounds Air">Sounds Air</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Cables">Cables</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Cables" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/HVDC_Inter-Island" title="HVDC Inter-Island">HVDC Inter-Island</a></div> In 1866, the first <a href="/wiki/Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Telegraph">telegraph</a> cable was laid in Cook Strait from <a href="/wiki/Lyall_Bay" title="Lyall Bay">Lyall Bay</a> on Wellington’s south coast to Whites Bay, north of <a href="/wiki/Blenheim,_New_Zealand" title="Blenheim, New Zealand">Blenheim</a>, connecting the South Island telegraph system to Wellington.<a href="#cite_note-cable-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-EvolvingAuckland8.4-49">[49]</a> In 1879 the vessel Kangaroo laid a further 120-nautical-mile-long (220 km) telegraph cable across Cook Strait from <a href="/wiki/Whanganui" title="Whanganui">Whanganui</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wakapuaka" title="Wakapuaka">Wakapuaka</a>, near Nelson.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Electric power and communication cables link the North and South Islands across Cook Strait, operated by <a href="/wiki/Transpower_New_Zealand_Limited" class="mw-redirect" title="Transpower New Zealand Limited">Transpower</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Transpower-51">[51]</a> In 1964 Cook Strait power cables laid.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1991 five new power and communication cables were laid.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 2002 two further communications cables were laid.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Three submarine power cables cross Cook Strait between Oteranga Bay in the North Island and Fighting Bay in the South Island as part of the <a href="/wiki/HVDC_Inter-Island" title="HVDC Inter-Island">HVDC Inter-Island</a>, which provides an electricity link between Benmore in the South island and Haywards in the North Island. Each cable operates at 350 kV, and can carry up to 500 MW, with Pole 2 of the link using one cable and Pole 3 using two cables. The link's total capacity is 1200 MW (500MW for Pole 2 and 700MW for Pole 3). The cables are laid on the seabed within a legally defined zone called the cable protection zone (CPZ). The CPZ is about 7 kilometres (4 mi) wide for most of its length, narrowing where it nears the terminals on each shore. Fishing activities and anchoring boats are prohibited within the CPZ.<a href="#cite_note-Transpower-51">[51]</a> Fibre optic cables carry telecommunications across Cook Strait, used by New Zealand's main telecommunication companies for domestic and commercial traffic and by Transpower for control of the HVDC link. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><h2 id="Tidal_power">Tidal power</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Tidal power" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-7 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-7"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Ocean_power_in_New_Zealand" title="Ocean power in New Zealand">Ocean power in New Zealand</a></div> The electrical power generated by tidal marine turbines varies as the cube of the tidal speed. Because the tidal speed doubles, eight times more tidal power is produced during spring tides than at neaps.<a href="#cite_note-benign-20">[20]</a> Cook Strait has been identified as a potentially excellent source of tidal energy.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> In April 2008, Neptune Power was granted a resource consent to install a $10 million experimental underwater <a href="/wiki/Tidal_stream_generator" title="Tidal stream generator">tidal stream turbine</a> capable of producing one megawatt. The turbine was designed in Britain, and was to be built in New Zealand and placed in 80 metres (260 ft) of water, 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) due south of Sinclair Head, in waters known as the "Karori rip". The company claimed there is enough tidal movement in Cook Strait to generate 12 GW of power, more than one-and-a-half times New Zealand's current requirements.<a href="#cite_note-NZ_Herald_10504122-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-benign-20">[20]</a> In practice, only some of this energy could be harnessed.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> As of October 2016, this turbine had not been built and the Neptune Power website is a placeholder with no further announcements. On the other side of the strait, Energy Pacifica applied for resource consent to install up to 10 marine turbines, each able to produce up to 1.2 MW, near the Cook Strait entrance to <a href="/wiki/Tory_Channel" title="Tory Channel">Tory Channel</a>. The company claimed that Tory Channel was an optimal site with a tidal current speed of 3.6 metres per second (12 ft/s) and the best combination of <a href="/wiki/Bathymetry" title="Bathymetry">bathymetry</a> and accessibility to the electricity network.<a href="#cite_note-benign-20">[20]</a> However, despite being validated by computer modelling,<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> no project was forthcoming. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="Swimming">Swimming</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Swimming" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_(1972).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg/220px-Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="759" data-file-height="689"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 220px;height: 200px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg/220px-Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg" data-width="220" data-height="200" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg/330px-Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg/440px-Cook_Strait_Swim_Track_%281972%29.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>Track of a swimmer's path crossing Cook Strait in 1972</figcaption></figure> According to <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_mythology" title="Māori mythology">oral tradition</a>, the first woman to swim Cook Strait was Hine Poupou. She swam from <a href="/wiki/Kapiti_Island" title="Kapiti Island">Kapiti Island</a> to <a href="/wiki/D%27Urville_Island_(New_Zealand)" class="mw-redirect" title="D'Urville Island (New Zealand)">d'Urville Island</a> with the help of a dolphin.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> Other Māori accounts tell of at least one swimmer who crossed the strait in 1831. In modern times, the strait was swum by <a href="/wiki/Barrie_Devenport" title="Barrie Devenport">Barrie Devenport</a> in 1962. <a href="/wiki/Lynne_Cox" title="Lynne Cox">Lynne Cox</a> was the first woman to swim it, in 1975.<a href="#cite_note-LynneCox-59">[59]</a> The most prolific swimmer of the strait is <a href="/wiki/Philip_Rush" title="Philip Rush">Philip Rush</a>, who has crossed eight times, including two double crossings. Aditya Raut was the youngest swimmer at 11 years. Caitlin O'Reilly was the youngest female swimmer and youngest New Zealander at 12 years. Pam Dickson was the oldest swimmer at 55 years.<a href="#cite_note-swim-60">[60]</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Coutts_(swimmer)" title="John Coutts (swimmer)">John Coutts</a> was the first person to swim the strait in both directions.<a href="#cite_note-HBT_2012-61">[61]</a> By 2010, 74 single crossings had been made by 65 individuals, and three double crossings had been made by two individuals (Philip Rush and <a href="/wiki/Meda_McKenzie" title="Meda McKenzie">Meda McKenzie</a>). In March 2016, Marilyn Korzekwa became the first Canadian and oldest woman, at 58 years old, to swim the strait.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> Crossing times by swimmers are largely determined by the strong and sometimes unpredictable currents that operate in the strait.<a href="#cite_note-swim-60">[60]</a> In 1980 the <a href="/wiki/Oceanographer" class="mw-redirect" title="Oceanographer">oceanographer</a> <a href="/wiki/Ron_Heath" title="Ron Heath">Ron Heath</a> published an analysis of currents in Cook Strait using the tracks of swimmers. This was from a time when detailed measurement of ocean currents was technologically difficult.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> In 1984 <a href="/wiki/Philip_Rush" title="Philip Rush">Philip Rush</a> swam the strait both ways.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 1984 <a href="/wiki/Meda_McKenzie" title="Meda McKenzie">Meda McKenzie</a> became the first woman to swim the strait both ways.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aotearoa_Wave_and_Tidal_Energy_Association" title="Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association">Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Cook_Strait&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-McLintock-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-McLintock_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-McLintock_1-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-McLintock_1-2">c</a> McLintock, A. 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hreflang="af" data-title="Straat van Cook" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C5%8Dcnearuness" title="Cōcnearuness – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Cōcnearuness" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ænglisc</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_(%D9%85%D8%B6%D9%8A%D9%82)" title="كوك (مضيق) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كوك (مضيق)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrechu_de_Cook" title="Estrechu de Cook – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Estrechu de Cook" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk_bo%C4%9Faz%C4%B1" title="Kuk boğazı – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Kuk boğazı" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A3%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF" title="কুক প্রণালি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="কুক প্রণালি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D2%93%D0%B0%D2%99%D1%8B" title="Кук боғаҙы – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Кук боғаҙы" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%9E_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Праліў Кука – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Праліў Кука" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA)" title="Кук (проток) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Кук (проток)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strizh-mor_Cook" title="Strizh-mor Cook – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Strizh-mor Cook" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estret_de_Cook" title="Estret de Cook – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Estret de Cook" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%C5%AFv_pr%C5%AFliv" title="Cookův průliv – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Cookův průliv" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culfor_Cook" title="Culfor Cook – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Culfor Cook" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookstra%C3%9Fe" title="Cookstraße – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Cookstraße" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooki_v%C3%A4in" title="Cooki väin – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Cooki väin" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrecho_de_Cook" title="Estrecho de Cook – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Estrecho de Cook" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuka_Markolo" title="Kuka Markolo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kuka Markolo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_itsasartea" title="Cook itsasartea – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Cook itsasartea" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%87_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%A9" title="تنگه کوک – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="تنگه کوک" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9troit_de_Cook" title="Détroit de Cook – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Détroit de Cook" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strjitte_fan_Cook" title="Strjitte fan Cook – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Strjitte fan Cook" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estreito_de_Cook" title="Estreito de Cook – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Estreito de Cook" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BF%A1_%ED%95%B4%ED%98%91" title="쿡 해협 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="쿡 해협" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AF%D5%AB_%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%B2%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%81" title="Կուկի նեղուց – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Կուկի նեղուց" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF" title="कुक जलसन्धि – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="कुक जलसन्धि" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookov_prolaz" title="Cookov prolaz – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Cookov prolaz" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selat_Cook" title="Selat Cook – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Selat Cook" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretto_di_Cook" title="Stretto di Cook – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Stretto di Cook" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%A8_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A7" title="מצר קוק – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מצר קוק" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94" title="კუკის სრუტე – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კუკის სრუტე" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlangobahari_wa_Cook" title="Mlangobahari wa Cook – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Mlangobahari wa Cook" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA_%D0%BA%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%B3%D1%8B" title="Кук кысыгы – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Кук кысыгы" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fretum_Cookianum" title="Fretum Cookianum – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Fretum Cookianum" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuka_%C5%A1aurums" title="Kuka šaurums – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Kuka šaurums" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuko_s%C4%85siauris" title="Kuko sąsiauris – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kuko sąsiauris" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strecc_de_Cook" title="Strecc de Cook – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Strecc de Cook" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook-szoros" title="Cook-szoros – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Cook-szoros" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BA" title="Куков Проток – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Куков Проток" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%A8_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="კუკიშ საროტი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="კუკიშ საროტი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straat_Cook" title="Straat Cook – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Straat Cook" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF" title="कुक जलसन्धि – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="कुक जलसन्धि" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाल भाषा</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E6%B5%B7%E5%B3%A1" title="クック海峡 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="クック海峡" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooksundet" title="Cooksundet – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Cooksundet" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooksundet" title="Cooksundet – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Cooksundet" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estrech_de_Cook" title="Estrech de Cook – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Estrech de Cook" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk_bo%CA%BBg%CA%BBozi" title="Kuk boʻgʻozi – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Kuk boʻgʻozi" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92_%DA%A9%DA%A9" title="آبنائے کک – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="آبنائے کک" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cie%C5%9Bnina_Cooka" title="Cieśnina Cooka – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Cieśnina Cooka" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estreito_de_Cook" title="Estreito de Cook – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Estreito de Cook" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%A2mtoarea_Cook" title="Strâmtoarea Cook – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Strâmtoarea Cook" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B2_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Пролив Кука – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Пролив Кука" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Strait" title="Cook Strait – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Cook Strait" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookov_prieliv" title="Cookov prieliv – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Cookov prieliv" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookov_preliv" title="Cookov preliv – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Cookov preliv" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B7" title="Куков пролаз – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Куков пролаз" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookov_prolaz" title="Cookov prolaz – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Cookov prolaz" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookinsalmi" title="Cookinsalmi – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Cookinsalmi" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooksundet" title="Cooksundet – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Cooksundet" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A3%E0%AF%88" title="குக் நீரிணை – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="குக் நீரிணை" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a 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