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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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 BeachWatch campaign, run in conjunction with the Marine Conservation Society, will finish at Fleshwick in the south of the island later.
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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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 South Pacific island chain declared a 1.9 million-sq-km sanctuary, contiguous with one established last week by neighbouring French Polynesia.
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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Those in the creative fields like designers, architects and artists are fixing up loft spaces in old industrial warehouses in Chai Wan, Aberdeen and Ap Lei Lau on the south side of the island where a new metro line is being built.
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.
The discoveries are part of an on-going project started last year when scientists unearthed hundreds of dodo bones at Mare aux Songes in the south-east of the island.
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Nor did he speculate how many more bodies might lie in the sandy scrubland behind the beach on the south shore of Long Island, just east of the New York City border.
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.
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.
Paia, Maui's North Shore surfer outpost, is the refreshing antithesis of the sprawling resorts on the island's south side.
Have Secret Hvar take you to one of the secluded beaches on the island's south coast before heading back to town.
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In the tropical forests of the island, just south of the equator, 37, 000 Japanese troops died from disease and starvation during the second world war.
Campaign group A Human Right, which is supported by the UN, has called on the Department for International Development to contribute a substantial amount to the engineering costs of connecting the island to the South Atlantic Express, a new superfast fibre optic cable being laid by South African firm eFive.
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.
The south west parish includes one of the island's most popular beaches - St Brelade's Bay - and is the third most populated parish with 10, 568 people, or 11% of the population.
To the south, on Stocking Island, luminescent red starfish grow to over a foot in diameter.
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