This is not to say the South Island is a slouch when it comes to golf courses.
Arriving in the 1840s, European settlers found the Nelson region at the top of the South Island perfect for the propagation of hops.
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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The 55-acre South Island parcel sat on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, whose waters come from glacial-melt rivers originating in Fiordland National Park.
Chef James Stapley was trained in London, won awards as the chef of a South Island winery, and has made simplicity his mantra.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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The last night comes along the shores of Lake Manapouri, where the waters are as warm as any lake on the South Island, just begging to cool your legs.
The 2, 340km network will be even further extended by already-established trails, such as the renowned 71km Queen Charlotte Track that meanders through the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island.
In the summer, free movies are projected onto one of the silos on Friday nights and a bar in a converted shipping container serves up Kiwi craft beer from microbreweries including Auckland-based Hallertau and Stoke Beer from the South Island city of Nelson.
"The deadline has everyone's attention, " said Suzy Goldhirsch, president of the Fire Island Association, which represents businesses and homeowners on the 32-mile-long barrier island south of Long Island.
The beach at South Biness Island has been replenished to protect little terns' nesting areas from flooding.
The South Pacific island chain declared a 1.9 million-sq-km sanctuary, contiguous with one established last week by neighbouring French Polynesia.
Hundreds of years ago, a book was written about the various bubbles through time: think alchemy, turning lead into gold, the South Sea Island bubble, and my particular favorite, the Tulip Bubble.
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The BeachWatch campaign, run in conjunction with the Marine Conservation Society, will finish at Fleshwick in the south of the island later.
Our boat throttles forward and we head out of the almost-deserted bay of Luka Soline, into the morning light, moving south across an island-dotted sea.
The Cypriot government, backed by Greece, has asked an American company to begin offshore drilling for gas to the south of the island.
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The town, which is the largest in the south of the island, has been proposed as the venue for more than 100 new homes.
The most concrete proof of this great expectation lies on the waterfront of the Marina Bay business district, on the south of the island.
Consideration is being given to freeing up more development land in the south of the island and tightening up on means-testing for council house tenants.
On the estate of the aristocratic French de Heaulme family in the south of the island she discovered an untouched forest fragment amid the sisal plantations.
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England captain David Beckham is still on course make the World Cup opener against Sweden as the countdown continues on the South Korean paradise island of Jeju.
Viewers are taken to Easter Island in the South Pacific, where scientists are trying to determine why the island's population mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the 1700s.
To the south, on Stocking Island, luminescent red starfish grow to over a foot in diameter.
I'm actually from the island of South Caicos and I've been in contact with my family members there.
The Becky Lou was impounded by the Sea Fisheries vessel the Leopardess off the south coast of the island on Monday.
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