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Cook Strait ferry

Cook Strait ferry

Although air and car travel are the major forms of domestic travel, there is one important shipping service, across Cook Strait between the North and South islands. Here the Arahura ferry is seen in Wellington Harbour as evening draws in.

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Photograph by Gerard Hutching

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Brian Easton, 'Economy - Tertiary production', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/3715/cook-strait-ferry (accessed 30 April 2024)

Story by Brian Easton, updated 1 Sep 2016