... Instead, I spent my final full day in New Zealand seeing Doubtful Sound, which lies about fifty miles further south. Doubtful's reputation for natural beauty does not quite match that of Milford, but the map made it clear that Doubtful is longer and more varied, with more subsidiary channels ... Read review
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Advantages: Beautifully conserved Disadvantages: Hard to reach
...day in New Zealand seeing Doubtful Sound, which lies about fifty miles further south. Doubtful's reputation for natural beauty does not quite match that of Milford, but the map made it clear that Doubtful is longer and more varied, with more subsidiary channels branching off it and more islands. But for me the clinching consideration was that it is much less heavily visited, being inaccessible by air or directly by road. When you have come to see ... ...navigators were less sceptical, but Doubtful Sound remained accessible only by sea until as late as 1959, and since then only by a private track. The track was laid to facilitate construction of a hydro-electric project designed to harness the power of water flowing from inland Lake Manapouri to the glacial valley that descends into Doubtful Sound.
Mention of the resultant power station may provoke an immediate sigh of despair, on the assumption ...
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