page_title: Milford Sound (village)
section_title: Milford Sound today
hierarchical_section_title: Milford Sound (village) / Milford Sound today
caption_attribution_description: English: Milford Sound Airport, New Zealand as seen from an aircraft.
context_page_description: Milford Sound is a small village located deep within Fiordland National Park in the Southland region of New Zealand. It is located at the head of the fiord also called Milford Sound. The village and fiord are one of the most visited places in New Zealand, receiving about one million day visitors per year.
context_section_description: At an annual average of over 6,800 millimetres (270 in) of rain with 182 rain days, Milford Sound is the wettest permanently lived in settlement in New Zealand. The heavier the rain, the more spectacular the waterfalls, with the Lady Bowen Falls closest to the village. Most tourists visiting Milford Sound are day tourists and just one lodge provides overnight accommodation. As the settlement is located in a national park, camping is not permitted. Most tourists reach Milford Sound by tour coach from Queenstown and with an eight-hour return trip, the village is only busy either side of lunchtime. Some tourists start their journey in Te Anau, which at four hours return is much closer. Annual visitor numbers were expected to exceed one million for the first time in 2019.
  Few people live permanently in Milford Sound. The population of the area at the 2018 census was 102. The village gets its drinking water from the Bowen River and this river also feeds a small hydroelectric plant for power supply.
caption: Aerial view of the village and airport in 2008
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