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Cook Strait rail ferries Media Gallery

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  • Cook Strait rail ferries
  • 'The floating bridge'
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Cook Strait ferry advertisement

Cook Strait ferry advertisement

Drive inter-island brochure

Drive inter-island brochure

Cars loading onto Cook Strait ferry

Cars loading onto Cook Strait ferry

Aranui Cook Strait ferry

Aranui Cook Strait ferry

Aramoana Cook Strait ferry

Aramoana Cook Strait ferry

Aratere ferry

Aratere ferry

Arahura Cook Strait ferry

Arahura Cook Strait ferry

Stranded tourists waiting for ferry

Stranded tourists waiting for ferry

Ferry strike cartoon

Ferry strike cartoon

Sea Shuttle advertisement

Sea Shuttle advertisement

Promoting the fast ferry service

Promoting the fast ferry service

Top Cat ferry

Top Cat ferry

Challenger ferry in Cook Strait

Challenger ferry in Cook Strait

Interislander stamp

Interislander stamp

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Film: surviving a Cook Strait ferry crossing

Film: surviving a Cook Strait ferry crossing

Film: ferry in Cook Strait on a rough day

Film: ferry in Cook Strait on a rough day

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Cruising Cook Strait 'sixties-style'

Cruising Cook Strait 'sixties-style'

Aboard the Aramoana slide show

Aboard the Aramoana slide show

Aratere ferry slideshow

Aratere ferry slideshow

A Cook Strait crossing story

A Cook Strait crossing story

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