Meretoto / Ship Cove is a small bay in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand, renowned as the first place of prolonged contact between Māori and Europeans. It is located near the entrance of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui, west of nearby Motuara Island and Long Island.
View across the sound to Motuara Island from Ship Cove in 2004
Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui
Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui is the easternmost of the main sounds of the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand's South Island.
Queen Charlotte Sound
Tory Channel, a major arm of Queen Charlotte Sound