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.
On Tuesday, the more than 60-year-old conflict between the two Koreas heated up again Tuesday when North Korea shelled a South Korean island and the South returned fire.
"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.
But he said what has happened at Kaesong wasn't a watershed moment like the shelling of a front-line South Korean island or the sinking of a South Korean warship, two attacks that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.
The exercises come 10 days after North Korea shelled a South Korean island, killing four people.
Last year North Korea sank a South Korean navy vessel and bombarded a South Korean island.
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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.
North Korea has not taken direct military action since 2010, when it shelled a South Korean island and killed four people.
The drills were planned well before North Korea shelled the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong last month, killing two marines and two civilians.
Besides the attack on the warship, it shelled a South Korean island in November 2010 that it has been threatening again in recent weeks.
The B-2s, escorted by two F-15s, dropped their dummy munitions at the bombing range on the South Korean island of Jik Do in daylight.
Despite its belligerent rhetoric, North Korea has not taken direct military action since 2010, when it shelled a South Korean island and killed four people.
Despite North Korea's belligerent rhetoric, it has not taken direct military action since 2010, when it shelled a South Korean island and killed four people.
But he added that North Korea might mount a small-scale provocation such as its 2010 shelling of a South Korean island, an attack that killed four people.
It has stayed open during even the tensest times between the two countries, including the North's surprise shelling last year of the inhabited South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.
The complex had withstood years of tensions - the sinking of a South Korean warship, the shelling of a South Korean island, and North Korean nuclear and missile tests.
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