New Zealand High Sea

West of Fiordland, the Tasman Sea meets a coast cut by deep inlets. Māori used a sea route from Piopiotahi / Milford Sound to carry kokotakiwai, a kind of greenstone, south toward Murihiku. An inland route crossed the mountains towards Lake Te Anau. The Welsh-born sealing captain John Grono later named Milford Sound after Milford Haven; in 1813 he rescued sealers stranded for years on Secretary Island farther south.