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 trip by Chen Yunlin, the senior Chinese negotiator, includes a foray into the party's heartlands in the south of the island.
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.
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 drills were planned well before North Korea shelled the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong last month, killing two marines and two civilians.
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.
On Sunday North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un visited front-line military units, including one said to be responsible for an attack on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong in 2010.
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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.
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 world's mostly southerly herd of reindeer is to be culled to try to save the environment of the island of South Georgia.
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 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 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.
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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Pyongyang not only has a history of provocative verbal threats, but it has taken reckless military actions as recently as two years ago, when the North sank a South Korean naval vessel and shelled an island occupied by the South.
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.
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.
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