Dusky Sound, deep in Fiordland, feels oddly familiar to anyone who has read a book on the voyages of Captain Cook. ... Fiordland National Park: Where history speaks. By John Roughan.

Milford Sound sits within Fiordland National Park, which in turn is part of Te Wahipounamu — South West New Zealand, a UNESCO World Heritage site that covers 10 percent of the country’s landmass.

In 1990, when Fiordland National Park was incorporated into the much larger (2.6 million ha) Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand) World Heritage Area, the issue of listing the seabed and waters of ...