Picton, New Zealand

The port town of Picton, originally Waitohi, with almost 3,000 inhabitants is located at the extremity of one of the fjords of the Marlborough Sounds, Queen Charlotte Sound in the Marlborough region in the north of the South Island of New Zealand.

Picton was named after the 1815 in the Battle of Waterloo fallen Thomas Picton, a military ally of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington.

The city serves as the of Wellington and the Cook Strait -reaching link between the North and South Islands of New Zealand Ferry. Here is then also the State Highway 1 continues, iterates through the entire North Island and only in the extreme south of the South Island ends at Bluff. In addition, Picton station of the South Iceland Main Trunk Railway, a rail network which the whole South Island extends to Invercargill and wrong on the way to Christchurch TranzCoastal.

Apart from Picton has as a starting point for many trips in the Marlborough Sounds also very important for the New Zealand tourism industry. Sights of Picton are at anchor in the harbor, restored three-master Edwin Fox and a small museum dedicated to whaling.

View Picton on the Sound