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12 longest fjords in New Zealand

12 fjords, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The fjords

  1. 1Doubtful Sound / Patea40 km
  2. 2Tamatea / Dusky Sound40 km
  3. 3Rakituma / Preservation Inlet37 km
  4. 4Te Houhou / George Sound26 km
  5. 5Te Awa-o-Tū / Thompson Sound21 km
  6. 6Taitetimu / Caswell Sound16 km
  7. 7Hāwea / Bligh Sound15 km
  8. 8Hinenui / Nancy Sound15 km
  9. 9Milford Sound / Piopiotahi15 km
  10. 10Taiporoporo / Charles Sound14 km
  11. 11Te Rā / Dagg Sound13 km
  12. 12Te Hāpua / Sutherland Sound10 km

Length in km from the mouth to the head of the fjord, as the sources give it: Wikidata’s (P2043), else the English Wikipedia article’s, else the figure in the opening lines of the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, German or Spanish article. Scoresby Sund counts as the whole system with Nordvestfjord, about 350 km, the longest on Earth. A fjord of unknown length is left out. Fjords are the items Wikidata records as a fjord (or a Norwegian fjord, Förde or poll): sea lochs, firths and sounds count where Wikidata calls them fjords too (the Firth of Forth, Loch Long, Milford Sound), and not otherwise. A fjord under 5 km, or of unknown length, is in only when well known (articles in 5 or more Wikipedia editions). Countries are Wikidata’s; a fjord of Greenland, the Faroes or Svalbard counts for Denmark or Norway too.

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