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Cook Strait

noun

  1. a strait in New Zealand between North and South Islands.


Cook Strait

noun

  1. the strait between North and South Islands, New Zealand. Width: 26 km (16 miles)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Now they watch for whales in Cook Strait from the same lookout tower they had used when whaling.

For some time after his return from Cook Strait, Rutherford's life appears to have been unvaried by any incident of moment.

The letter came from Cook Strait, and explained that the people of that neighbourhood were eager to receive instruction.

Cook Strait, which separates the two islands, is about sixteen miles wide at its narrowest crossing.

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