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Cook Strait ferry

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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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Brian Easton, Economy – Tertiary production, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3715/cook-strait-ferry (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Brian Easton, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 September 2016.