Heavy seas and gales in the Cook Strait between New Zealand's North and South Islands have disrupted ferry travel during the peak summer holiday period.
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The havoc wrought by huge swells and gales in the deep and turbulent Cook Strait between the North and South Islands is a recurring feature of the country’s roughest weather. Breakdowns of New Zealand’s aging ferries have also caused delays.But unlike in Britain and Japan, New Zealand has not seriously considered an undersea tunnel beneath the strait that more than 1 million people cross by sea each year.
He estimated a cost for a tunnel of 50 billion New Zealand dollars , comparable in today’s terms to the price ofthat connects Britain and Europe by rail. New Zealand is the same size as the United Kingdom — but the U.K. has a population of 69 million, more than 13 times New Zealand’s. The Cook Strait is less calm than many worldwide because it features opposing tides at each end — one where it joins the Tasman Sea and the other where it meets the Pacific Ocean.
The ferries themselves, prone to breakdowns and more than half of them state-owned, have long been a political hot potato. The current government scrapped their predecessors’ plan to replace the vessels before they become defunct in 2029 as too costly. The opposition has criticized the government for only partly revealing its new ferry replacement plan in December and for not divulging the cost.
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