Chalky Island
Chalky Island or Te Kākahu-o-Tamatea is an island in the southwest of New Zealand, and is part of Fiordland National Park. It lies at the entrance to Taiari / Chalky Inlet, next to Rakituma / Preservation Inlet, at the southwestern tip of the South Island, 10 kilometres northwest of Puysegur Point, 15 kilometres southeast of West Cape, and 140 kilometres west of Invercargill.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: LawrieM, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Fiordland, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Chalky Island, New Zealand” and “Te Kākahu-o-Tamatea”
Chalky Island
- Category: landform
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Russian—“Chalky Island” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Չոլկի”
- Cebuano: “Chalky Island”
- Chinese: “喬基島”
- Czech: “Te Kākahu-o-Tamatea”
- Dutch: “Chalky Island, New Zealand”
- French: “île Chalky”
- French: “Île Chalky”
- German: “Chalky Island”
- Inari Sami: “Chalky Island”
- Indonesian: “Pulau chalky”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Chalky”
- Japanese: “チャルキー島”
- Maori: “Te Kākahu-o-Tamatea”
- Polish: “Wyspa Chalky”
- Russian: “Чолки (остров)”
- Russian: “Чолки”
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