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 Foveaux Strait -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Foveaux Strait -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
[Categories: New Zealand coastline, Southland, New Zealand, Straits]
On the north side of the strait is the harbour of (The act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards) Bluff.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/foveaux_strait.htm   (73 words)

  
 C, Page 1
Caddell was an English cabin-boy on a sealing ship, the Sydney Cove, in Foveaux Strait, between Stewart Island and the South Island of New Zealand, when he was captured by the local Maori p...
Campbell is part Portuguese, Northern Cheyenne (and has been inducted into their council of chiefs) and possibly also Apache and Pueblo, a rancher and horse trainer, jewellery designer, jud...
At the age of six Capote's parents abandoned him to the care of four elderly, unmarried maternal cousins, three sisters and a brother, living together.
famous.adoption.com /famous/c.html   (317 words)

  
 Some Antarctic Collections
An historical account of the circumnavigation of the globe, and of the progress of discovery in the Pacific Ocean, from the voyage of Magellan to the death of Cook.
Murihiku and the Southern Islands: a history of the West Coast Sounds, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, the Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell and Macquarie Islands, from 1770 to 1829.
This gave rise to the belief that the Strait of Magellan was the only gap between two large land masses.
www.antarctic-circle.org /collections.htm   (13099 words)

  
 Wakatipu Lake --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
The lake's name is of Maori derivation and may mean “water springs dug by Rakaihaitu” or, more likely, may refer to a legend of a...
It rises in the Eyre Mountains south of Wakatipu Lake and flows south past Gore and Mataura to enter the Pacific Ocean at Foveaux Strait, 20 miles (32 km) east of Bluff, after a course of 149 mi (240 km).
Together with the Oreti and Aparima rivers, the Mataura has created the Murihiku (Southland) Plain and drains an area of 281 square...
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9382229   (955 words)

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