Port Gore (officially / Port Gore) is a bay and natural harbour at the northern end of the Marlborough Sounds in

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. It is close to the northern tip of the

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, at the western end of Cook Strait. It is directly west of the entrance to Queen Charlotte Sound. Port Gore is the resting place of the

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luxury cruise liner, the ''

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

'', which sank on 16 February 1986 as a result of attempting to navigate the narrow passage between Cape Jackson and the Lighthouse Rock. As a consequence of the disaster, Russian President

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

joked that New Zealand was the only country to get away with sinking a Russian ship. It is now a popular attraction as the largest fully intact wreck dive in the world and easily accessible at a depth of only . In August 2014, the name of the bay was officially altered to Te Anamāhanga / Port Gore.

References

Bays of the Marlborough Region Marlborough Sounds Ports and harbours of New Zealand Geography of the Marlborough Region {{Marlborough-geo-stub