Queen Charlotte Sound

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Queen Charlotte Sound is the most easterly of the Marlborough Sounds, a group of fiords on the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand (see Fiord). Captain James Cook named the sound in 1770 in honor of Queen Charlotte, who was the wife of King George III.

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