List of sounds and inlets of Fiordland

The following is a list of the sounds and inlets or similar features which punctuate the coast of Fiordland, in southwestern New Zealand, in geographic order from north to south:

• Big Bay
• Martins Bay
• Milford Sound
• Poison Bay
• Sutherland Sound
• Hāwea / Bligh Sound
• Bounty Haven
• George Sound
• South West Arm
• Looking Glass Bay
• Caswell Sound
• Charles Sound
• Emelius Arm
• Hinenui / Nancy Sound
• Foot Arm
• Thompson Sound
• Bradshaw Sound (also Doubtful Sound)
• Precipice Cove
• Gaer Arm
• Doubtful Sound / Patea, and its arms:
• Malaspina Reach
• Hall Arm
• Crooked Arm
• First Arm
• Dagg Sound
• Anchorage Arm
• Breaksea Sound, and its arms:
• Vancouver Arm
• Broughton Arm
• Acheron Passage (linked to Dusky Sound)
• Wet Jacket Arm
• Tamatea / Dusky Sound
• Supper Cove
• Fanny Bay
• Cascade Cove
• Taiari / Chalky Inlet, and its arms:
• Moana-whenua-pōuri / Edwardson Sound
• Te Korowhakaunu / Kanáris Sound
• Rakituma / Preservation Inlet, and its arms:
• Isthmus Sound
• Useless Bay
• Te Awaroa / Long Sound
• Lake Hakapoua (divided from sea by a landslide in 1915)

Many of the sounds and inlets were given dual names in 2019.

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