Named after Captain James Cook’s comment (he was only a lieutenant then) when passing the sound’s entrance to the Tasmin sea in 1770 – he thought it too sheltered and commented it was doubtful if they would be able to get out again if they sailed in there.
How right he was – it is HUGE (3 times the size of the more famous neighbour Milford Sound ) and easterlies rarely blow, so if they’d come in, in the Endeavour, they may well have been stuck here for ages, and not gone on to make more discoveries!
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