Cook Strait
Americannoun
noun
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In March, he set a new world record for the fastest swim across the Cook Strait - the waters between New Zealand's North and South Islands.
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2023
“We are aware vessels left Picton this morning to cross the Cook Strait to Wellington,” said Nigel Clifford, a deputy director at Maritime New Zealand.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2022
The nation’s research community has a collaborative, can-do attitude — as Goetz’s Cook Strait survey attests.
From Nature • Sep. 3, 2018
One day, we were catching 25-knot gusts on whitecaps at the edge of Cook Strait.
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2018
The remaining weeks of the year 1843 were spent amongst the "Cook Strait settlements," in most of which good progress was evident.
From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)
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