Milford Sound – Mis-named but the Seals don’t care

According to our cruise guide, a sound is a valley carved by the river while a fjord is a valley carved by glaciers. However, when Milford Sound and the other surrounding 'sounds' were first named, 'fjord', a Norwegian word, did not exist in English yet. Later, instead of re-naming each of the 'sound', the sounds... Continue Reading →

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