Cruises from Queen Charlotte Sound

Queen Charlotte Sound is the easternmost of the Marlborough Sound, at the top end of the South Island of New Zealand. It enters Cook Strait, just 22 km from the North Island. The 42 km Sound is a drowned river valley. The jagged coastlines around the sound limit transport to water, and ferries ply between Picton, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound, and Wellington on the North Island. Captain James Cook sheltered here during each of his three voyages of exploration of this region around 1770.