Foveaux Strait
Foveaux Strait is a strait that separates Stewart Island from the South Island of New Zealand. The width of the strait ranges from about 23 to 53 km, and the depth varies between 18 and 46 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Du Hugin Skulblaka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait in New Zealand between Stewart Island / Rakiura and South Island / Te Waipounamu
- Also known as: “Te Ara-a-Kiwa”
Foveaux Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Southland, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Foveaux Strait” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Foveaux”
- Azerbaijani: “Fovo boğazı”
- Catalan: “estret Foveaux”
- Catalan: “Estret Foveaux”
- Cebuano: “Foveaux Strait”
- Chinese: “弗佛海峽”
- Chinese: “福沃海峡”
- Chinese: “福沃海峽”
- Czech: “Foveauxův průliv”
- Dutch: “Foveauxstraat”
- Dutch: “Straat Foveaux”
- Esperanto: “Markolo Foveaux”
- Estonian: “Foveaux‘ väin”
- Estonian: “Foveaux’ väin”
- Finnish: “Foveaux’nsalmi”
- French: “détroit de Foveaux”
- French: “Détroit de Foveaux”
- Georgian: “ფოვოს სრუტე”
- German: “Foveaux Strait”
- German: “Foveaux-Straße”
- German: “Foveauxstrasse”
- German: “Foveauxstraße”
- Hebrew: “מצר פובו”
- Hindi: “फोवेक्स जलसन्धि”
- Hindi: “फोवो जलसन्धि”
- Hungarian: “Foveaux-szoros”
- Hungarian: “Te Ara a Kiwa”
- Indonesian: “Selat Foveaux”
- Italian: “Stretto di Foveaux”
- Japanese: “フォーボー海峡”
- Korean: “포보 해협”
- Lithuanian: “Fovo sąsiauris”
- Macedonian: “Фовоов Проток”
- Maori: “Te Ara-a-Kiwa”
- Newari: “फोवो जलसन्धि”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foveaux-sundet”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Foveaux”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Foveaux”
- Russian: “Фово”
- Slovak: “Foveauxov prieliv”
- Slovenian: “Foveaux Strait”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Foveaux”
- Spanish: “Estrecho Foveaux”
- Turkish: “Foveaux Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Фово”
- Welsh: “Culfor Foveaux”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Foveaux Strait”. Photo: Du Hugin Skulblaka, CC BY-SA 4.0.