Question: Information: - Climate is the statistics of weather, usually over a 30-year interval. It is measured by assessing the patterns of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time. Climate differs from weather, in that weather only describes the short-term conditions of these variables in a given region. - Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents of the superfamily Muroidea. "True rats" are members of the genus "Rattus", the most important of which to humans are the black rat, "Rattus rattus", and the brown rat, "Rattus norvegicus". Many members of other rodent genera and families are also referred to as rats, and share many characteristics with true rats. - A ria is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley. It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea. Typically, rias have a dendritic, treelike outline although they can be straight and without significant branches. This pattern is inherited from the dendritic drainage pattern of the flooded river valley. The drowning of river valleys along a stretch of coast and formation of rias results in an extremely irregular and indented coastline. Often, there are islands, which are summits of partly submerged, pre-existing hill peaks. - An inlet is an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow, such as a small bay or arm, that often leads to an enclosed body of salt water, such as a sound, bay, lagoon, or marsh. In sea coasts, an inlet usually refers to the actual connection between a bay and the ocean and is often called an "entrance" or a recession in the shore of a sea, lake, or river. A certain kind of inlet created by glaciation is a fjord, typically but not always in mountainous coastlines and also in montane lakes. - In geography, temperate or tepid latitudes of Earth lie between the tropics and the polar regions. The temperatures in these regions are generally relatively moderate, rather than extremely hot or cold, and the changes between summer and winter are also usually moderate. - The North Island or Te Ika-a-Mui ("Mori") is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island's area is , making it the world's 14th-largest island. It has a population of - Queen Charlotte Sound / Ttaranui is the easternmost of the main sounds of the Marlborough Sounds , in New Zealand 's South Island . It is , like the other sounds , a drowned river valley ( or ria ) , and like the majority of its neighbours it runs southwest to northeast before joining Cook Strait . The town of Picton , the northern terminus of the South Island 's railway and State Highway networks , lies near the head of the Sound . Other settlements by the sound are small and isolated -- often simply individual properties . Due to the rugged nature of the coast , for many of these access is by boat only . To the east of the sound lie Arapaoa Island and Tory Channel . Interisland ferries use Tory Channel and Queen Charlotte Sound on their journeys between Picton and Wellington in the North Island . Parallel to Queen Charlotte Sound to the northwest lies Kenepuru Sound , an arm of Pelorus Sound , Marlborough 's other main sound . Some of the small side arms of the two sounds are only hundreds of metres apart , but are separated by a steep serrated range of hills . Not surprisingly , one of the settlements on this stretch of coast is called Portage , named for the simplest method of passing between the two sounds . It was from a hill on Arapaoa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea , which was named Cook Strait . Captain Cook sheltered in Queen Charlotte Sound during each of his three voyages of exploration at various points . The area was a base for whaling throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries , notably at Perano Head on Arapaoa Island . Queen Charlotte Sound has calm water and is popular for sailing - a marked contrast to the notorious waters of Cook Strait . Many ships have been wrecked close to the entrance to the Sound , most notably in recent years the Russian cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov , which sank in 1986 in Port Gore after striking rocks . One life was lost in the incident . In August 2014 , the name of the sound was... - The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. - Wellington is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents. It is at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. Wellington is the major population centre of the southern North Island and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region, which also includes the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa. As the nation's capital city, the New Zealand Government and Parliament, Supreme Court and most of the civil service are based in the city. - The Tasman Sea (Mori: "Te Tai-o-Rehua") is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand. It measures about across and about from north to south. The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman, who was the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand and Tasmania. The British explorer Captain James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s as part of his first voyage of exploration. - The South Island or Te Waipounamu ("Mori") is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The South Island covers and is influenced by a temperate climate. - The Marlborough Sounds are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys at the north end of the South Island of New Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds were created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels at the north of the South Island of New Zealand. According to Mori mythology, the sounds are the prows of the sunken wakas of Aoraki. - Mori mythology and Mori traditions are the two major categories into which the legends of the Mori of New Zealand may usefully be divided. The rituals, beliefs, and the world view of Mori society were ultimately based on an elaborate mythology that had been inherited from a Polynesian homeland and adapted and developed in the new setting (Biggs 1966:448). - Cook Strait lies between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. It connects the Tasman Sea on the northwest with the South Pacific Ocean on the southeast, and runs next to the capital city, Wellington. It is wide at its narrowest point, and is considered one of the most dangerous and unpredictable waters in the world. After reading the paragraphs above, choose the best answer for the entity that related to 'queen charlotte sound ' with the relationship of 'instance of'. 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bay