How To Use South island In A Sentence
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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.
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The scenery of South Island is on a grand scale.
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This is known as the whitewater mecca of the South Island.
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The mohua/yellowhead is a small, insect-eating bird which lives only in the forests of New Zealand's South Island and Stewart Island.
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Conservation officials today formally declared the South Island kokako extinct, saying there had been no confirmed sightings for 40 years.
Archive 2007-01-01
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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However, with global warming the high pressure systems are stronger and southerlies find it harder and harder to penetrate over the South Island.
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Bella Button was a skilled horsewoman who drove winners in a number of races in the 1890s until the South Island Trotting Association resolved that only men would be allowed to drive at meetings.
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South Island, the larger of the pair, is also known locally as "the Mainland," while North Island, where three-quarters of the population lives, is also called "Pig Island," partly for the wild pigs that English explorer James Cook brought during a visit and that still roam in the wilderness.
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The Himalayan tahr was successfully introduced to the South Island of New Zealand during 1904-1919 and now has a breeding range of approximately 5000 km.
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The scenery of South Island is on a grand scale.
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Surprisingly, rather than grouping the South Island Brown Teal with the North Island Brown Teal or one of the subantarctic teals, the South Island Brown Teal grouped with the Mallard and Grey Duck.
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Okarito Lagoon is the largest estuarine lagoon on the South Island's west coast and is an important habitat for wading birds, including South Island pied oystercatcher Haematopus sp., pied stilt and the migratory bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica and knot Calidris sp.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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The nurseryman sent thousands of plants all over the North Island and quite a lot to the South Island.
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New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (commonly called the North Island and the South Island), and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands.
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Then we left home, left school, joined the Territorials for the free trip to the South Island, then we played our first gig at a Christchurch café, for which we got five dollars between us.
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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
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The first new wharenui in a century was opened on the South Island when the Rehua Wharenui was completed.
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Okarito Lagoon is the largest estuarine lagoon on the South Island's west coast and is an important habitat for wading birds, including South Island pied oystercatcher Haematopus sp., pied stilt and the migratory bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica and knot Calidris sp.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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The manuka on Stewart Island have a differently shaped leaf from the manuka on the South Island so they are thought perhaps to be a different species.
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Kiekie is found in North Island and also on the west coast of South Island down to Milford Sound, from coastal to montane forests and scrub.
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The South Island has a maritime climate and snow can fall at ground level in Fjordland in winter.
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The South Island kokako is now listed as officially extinct, but one of its most dedicated fans is still a believer.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Another article on the search for the South Island kokako in New Zealand.
Archive 2008-12-01
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New Zealand's geographical features vary from the Southern Alps and fjords on South Island to the volcanoes, hot springs, and geysers on North Island.
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In winter Miranda is home to birds from New Zealand's South Island, particularly wrybills, pied oystercatchers and kotuku (white herons).
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An amateur ornithologist claims he saw a South Island kokako from about 20 meters.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Another submitter - a large one from the South Island - raised the issue of the cost of significant investments, and the need for clarity and certainty about that.
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The South Island was formed, they say, when a canoe full of 150 gods foundered on a reef.
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For the veteran searchers seeking signs of the long-lost South Island kokako, a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park sounds like a breakthrough.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Winter is keeping a firm grip on the South Island as snow isolates Dunedin for the second time in a week and restricts travel around the lower part of the country.
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Rudyard Kipling described the South Islands Milford Sound as the eighth wonder of the world.
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In particular searches have been made for the kiwi, blue duck, yellow head and the South Island kokako.
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In recent years, searches for the South Island kokako have been in Granville State Forest in the West Coast's Grey Valley and further north in the Paparoa Range near Charleston.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Near one set of small waterfalls the first time I saw a small group of the South Island edelweiss, [Leucogenes grandiceps] in a charming location close to the water.
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Moving glaciers, deep fjords, and large lakes are characteristic of South Island.
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New Zealand Department of Conservation spokesman Trish Grant said, the pilot whale stranding South Island tourist city located about 150 km west of Nelson's farewell Sha Tsui.
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Also, a deep low over the Tasman Sea is expected to move southeastwards past Fiordland and Southland overnight, forcing a strong northwesterly flow across much of the South Island.
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Hart has attracted some sharp criticism, especially from Otago and southern parts of the South Island.
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Surprisingly, rather than grouping the South Island Brown Teal with the North Island Brown Teal or one of the subantarctic teals, the South Island Brown Teal grouped with the Mallard and Grey Duck.
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That South Island kokako investigation team included Christchurch researcher Ron Nilsson, who has spent 20 years searching remote valleys in Nelson, Westland, Fiordland and Stewart Island.
Archive 2007-01-01
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It was expected to bring heavy rain and winds up the South Island, with strong northwesterlies hitting Wellington and Wairarapa this evening.
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We know she let her drivers take the flak when they carried her, at speed, halfway across the South Island.
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The weather forecast says cold southerlies, showers and icy temperatures will continue in the South Island for most of the week.
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Endemic to the South Island, the kea is a highly intelligent, curious, social, and adaptable bird.
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In 1773, English navigator and explorer Captain James Cook landed two merino sheep in the Marlborough Sounds, in the north of the South Island.
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Sheep farms are found on the more hilly South Island.
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It's midsummer - a mere week from the solstice - and the weather report is talking about snow in the South Island over the weekend.
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Slam tequilas, mix margaritas and groove to South Island's hottest salsa and house as DJ's turn the volume up.
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Three of the awards were scooped up by South Island properties.
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In particular searches have been made for the kiwi, blue duck, yellow head and the South Island kokako.
