🚤 Foveaux Strait

New Zealand · Oceania · 46.67°S, 168.19°E

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. The earliest known chart of the strait was prepared by American sealer, Owen Folger Smith from a whaleboat of the sealing brig Union in 1804.

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Quick facts

Country	New Zealand
Continent / region	Oceania
Coordinates (approx.)	46.67°S, 168.19°E · view on map

Foveaux Strait is located in New Zealand, in Oceania.

More straits in New Zealand

Colville Channel · Cook Strait · French Pass · Pitt Strait · Tāmaki Strait.

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