South Island

How To Use South Island In A Sentence

• This year's tour takes in both North and South islands, opening up superb holiday opportunities - everything from skiing and white-water rafting to wine tasting.
• The scenery of South Island is on a grand scale.
• This is known as the whitewater mecca of the South Island. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
• The mohua/yellowhead is a small, insect-eating bird which lives only in the forests of New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.
• Conservation officials today formally declared the South Island kokako extinct, saying there had been no confirmed sightings for 40 years. Archive 2007-01-01
• Some 12 British MPs and a small number of international observers will monitor the votes as they are cast across the North and South Islands.
• While researching this issue, we noted that 'North Island' and 'South Island' are actually not official names under our legislation, despite their common long-term usage," Grant said. TheState.com: The Buzz
• Extirpated species include birds such as the South Island subspecies of the endangered kokako (Callaeas cinerea cinerea) and the extinct piopio (Turnagra capensis), the grayling fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus), and plants like Stellaria elantinoides. Southland temperate forests
• The ship rat invaded Big South Cape Island off Stewart Island, where the last population of South Island saddlebacks existed and other things like bush wren, Stewart Island bush snipe and the greater short-tailed bat.
• However, with global warming the high pressure systems are stronger and southerlies find it harder and harder to penetrate over the South Island.