Fortunately, most of the time spent walking the Milford Track--a four-day, 33.5-mile walk on New Zealand's South Island--involves more marveling than worrying about the surroundings.

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Australian owners Martyn and Louise Myer fell in love with the mountains of New Zealand's South Island on a ski trip nearly 20 years ago.

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Filming started in the wintry peaks of New Zealand's South Island, then moved to Cape Town in South Africa, then further north to the desert of Namibia.

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This post is prompted by two important things that happened on my recent holiday in the South Island of New Zealand.

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In the past four years he has cycled from Boston to Chicago in the US, the length of South Island, New Zealand, and Adelaide to Brisbane in Australia.

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Members of Ryder's family, officials of New Zealand Cricket and the head of the New Zealand Cricket Players' Association were also set travel to the South Island city.

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Their journeys and settlements stretch from South East Asia and Melanesia in the West, to Hawaii in the north, Rapanui or Easter Island in the East and Aotearoa New Zealand in the South.

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The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands consist of five island groups (the Snares, Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island) in the Southern Ocean south-east of New Zealand.

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