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Maori legend has it that Fiordland was created by the demi god Tu-te-raki-whanoa, who hacked great gashes into the mountains with his toki (adze). He planned on making waterways stocked with fish and safe harbours for boats and his blows created the southern fiords. Piopiotahi / Milford Sound was the last fiord he carved, so it is the most perfect and sharply defined. The places where he planted his feet became Resolution and Secretary islands.