I’m travelling at the moment and just sailed through New Zealand’s beautiful World Heritage Listed Fiordland National Park including places like Milford Sound, Doubtful Sound and Dusky Sound. While there I saw the Five Fingers Peninsula, which is a rock formation first named and mapped by the great explorer, Captain James Cook during his exploration of Dusky Sound at Fiordland. I have read that very few people in the world have seen Cook’s Five Fingers, and I have to say that it was an amazing experience for me to have done so. I’d be interested to know if any other Local Guide has also seen this amazing rock formation. Have you seen Cook’s Five Fingers?
Thanks for sharing @AdamGT . I have a couple of times many years ago. The first time when I did a boat trip from the National Park, and another time when I circumnavigated the South Island.
I haven’t got any digital photos nor do I have my still photos with me; they are at my home in New Zealand.
I haven’t heard much discussion about the Five Fingers for many years so it was a surprise when I read your post.
The actual five fingers weren’t on Google Maps, so I added it. Seem as you have the photos, you may want to add them and a review. Here is the link to the new addition. The Five Fingers.
Did you visit after the heavy rain and storm that occurred there recently? How long is your NZ visit? Where are you planning on going?
Sounds like you have done the same trips around the South Island as I just did. I loved it tremendously. NZ has so much to offer and the Fiordland National Park is a highlight. We were in Fiordland in November but the weather was really bad so we didn’t get too far and rescheduled this and were to visit during the week of the heavy rain but had to cancel that too and we took a punt on the following week and got lucky. We spent some time in Fiordland, and who wouldn’t, and then we ventured off around to Invercargill then onto the east coast to places including Dunedin, Timaru and Akaroa. I’m currently back in Oz and soon heading to the South Pacific.
BTW I did add the Five Fingers but my understanding is that technically this is known as the Five Fingers Peninsula so I added and named it accordingly.
Thanks for reply @AdamGT . My brother and his wife were down that way for two weeks at end of December, start of January and managed to miss the bad weather.
Pleased you got to see quite a bit including Akaroa and Dunedin. Unsure if you visited E. Hayes & Sons when in Invercargill, maybe not as it may appear to be just a hardware store. It actually has Burt Munro’s Indian motorcycle, as seen in the movie, The World’s Fastest Indian.
I see where you added the pointer on Google Maps but you put in the incorrect location. You can see in the screenshot below, the five Island’s which are the five fingers. You went out further than you realised. The five finger’s are actually at the end of the Resolution Island Peninsula.
I hope you enjoy your trip around the South Pacific.
Wow this photo is stunning! I’m sure it’s amazing being on that part of the world? I’ve never been there, but it’s on my list. Did you know about Cook’s Five Fingers or stumbled by accident?
Where exactly are you traveling? Are you only by boat? That must be quite the experience. Do tell more.
Hi @TheEagleEye and sorry for my late reply but I only returned home yesterday after this amazing journey.
Your brother and his wife were lucky not to have been there during, and thus missed the bad weather as a local National Park ranger did say that it was the heaviest rain he had seen. We were also lucky in February and had an amazing experience in beautiful places like Milford Sound, Doubtful Sound and Dusky Sound. The Fiordland National Park is well worthy of its World Heritage listing. Sailing around the bottom of the South Island, with Antarctica being the next main stop south was also an exhilarating experience. While being a fan, we didn’t see Burt Munro’s Indian motorcycle but had we known about it beforehand we would have been tempted to drop in.
Regarding the Map pointer I added, it was difficult doing this in that part of the world and on the small screen of a smartphone and with a terrible satellite connection. We may have gone out further than I realized but we did sail past the five fingers and as you can see, I did manage to take a few snaps of them. As you suggested I’ve now added a review and photos to your addition of The Five Fingers.
Thank you, we certainly thoroughly enjoyed our trip around New Zealand and then headed north to the South Pacific. It was a long trip but an amazing one, however I’m glad to be home now and with a much more stable Internet connection rushing to catch up with things including all things LG Connect.
Sorry for my late reply but I only returned home yesterday after an amazing journey. Thank you for message and comment about my photo of Captain Cook’s Five Fingers. I’ve taken hundreds of photos during this amazing trip and look forward to sharing more of them as time goes by. Having been to places like Greenland, Iceland and Norway’s North Cape on Magerøya Island (the northernmost point in Europe and the true land of the midnight sun), a visit to New Zealand’s World Heritage Listed, Fiordland National Park had been on my bucket list for some time and yes it certainly was amazing being in this part of the world. Visiting such places is like traveling to another planet. I’m really happy to hear that Fiordland National Park is on your bucket list. I just know that you will thoroughly enjoy it. You can take a road trip down the South Island to Milford Sound and then sail on a boat or catamaran or even a scenic flight over this area. I did know about Cook’s Five Fingers as we studied the area and planned it all before the trip. Captain James Cook has certainly left his mark in this and so many other parts of the world. He was truly an amazing explorer.
