Document Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The hugely popular summer cruise tours of the West Coast Sounds in the South Island ofNew Zealand reveal a colonial history of leisured mobility and landscape appreciationcommon to New Zealand and Australia. Cruising the Sounds was a practice imbued withprivilege, exclusivity, emotional upliftment and wonder, generating shared attachments towilderness space. This culture of maritime tourism offers new insights into the mobilepractices which shaped the Tasman World, and points to the centrality of ships andshipping routes as spaces of transcolonial history.
RIS ID
81972
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Publication Details
Steel, F. (2013). Cruising New Zealand’s west coast sounds: Fiord tourism in the Tasman World c.1870–1910. Australian Historical Studies, 44 (3), 361-381.