Cruising New Zealand’s west coast sounds: Fiord tourism in the Tasman World c.1870–1910
RIS ID
81972
Abstract
The hugely popular summer cruise tours of the West Coast Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand reveal a colonial history of leisured mobility and landscape appreciation common to New Zealand and Australia. Cruising the Sounds was a practice imbued with privilege, exclusivity, emotional upliftment and wonder, generating shared attachments to wilderness space. This culture of maritime tourism offers new insights into the mobile practices which shaped the Tasman World, and points to the centrality of ships and shipping routes as spaces of transcolonial history.
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.