Milford Sound / Piopiotahi
Glacier-carved fiord of sheer cliffs, plunging waterfalls and Mitre Peak rising from dark water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Milford Sound / Piopiotahi, a fiord reached from Queenstown, is about the people who made a living here before the road arrived. It follows Donald Sutherland, a Scottish ex-soldier and prospector who sailed in with a dog in December 1877, and the rock he dug at for a fortune. Later it turns to Elizabeth Samuel, the English widow who changed what the work here was. Best heard on the foreshore, within sound of Bowen Falls.
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