MILFORD SOUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 8, 11 January 1927, Page 9

MILFORD SOUND.

VISIT OP THE CAKIJfTHIA. AMERICAX APPRECIATION". Recording the visit or the liner Carinthia to that •'wonder spot," Milford Sound, one of the tourists writes to ail Australian paper as follows: "Manv Americans declared that Milford Sound was the most beautiful of its kind in the world, excelling the fiords of Norway and Alaska. Others agreed that, while perhaps lacking the variety of the Alaskan fiords. Milford Sound was much bolder in outline, and had a more dramatic entrance. The Carinthia is the biggest ship to make the sound, and first tourists to visit there in sixteen years. "A tiny motor boat scuttled for the shelter in astonishment when the huge Cunarder swung slowly through the quarter-mile gateway. "Everyone thronged the rails, taking snaps and movies of the beauty and grandeur of Milford Sound, which almost beggars description. Oil either side the rugged peaks rose sheer from the water's edge to as high as 4000 feet, backed by others 9000 feet high. It was like being locked in a giarrt. rock-bound ditch. ""Down each mighty crag, as though coming from the sky. water fell, cutting delicate white traceries. It came from the glaciers, many of which, living on the mountain sides, brought gasps of admiration from the tourists. Waterfalls and a huge snow and ice-capped peak at the top of the sound completed a picture which will live for ever iu memory."'