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Kōrero: Ocean currents and tides

Rough seas

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Rough seas

This launch is making heavy work of swells in the Bay of Islands, an area with a normally low wave height. While the most consistent large waves are around the south-west coast of the South Island, storms can bring large swells to any New Zealand coastline.

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Boating New Zealand

by Mike Hunter

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Craig Stevens rāua ko Stephen Chiswell, Ocean currents and tides – Waves, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/5923/rough-seas (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Craig Stevens rāua ko Stephen Chiswell, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.