NOUN
- the larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait
How To Use South Island In A Sentence
- Hart has attracted some sharp criticism, especially from Otago and southern parts of the South Island.
- In winter Miranda is home to birds from New Zealand's South Island, particularly wrybills, pied oystercatchers and kotuku (white herons).
- An amateur ornithologist claims he saw a South Island kokako from about 20 meters. Archive 2008-03-01
- Another submitter - a large one from the South Island - raised the issue of the cost of significant investments, and the need for clarity and certainty about that.
- The South Island was formed, they say, when a canoe full of 150 gods foundered on a reef.
- For the veteran searchers seeking signs of the long-lost South Island kokako, a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park sounds like a breakthrough. Archive 2007-01-01
- Winter is keeping a firm grip on the South Island as snow isolates Dunedin for the second time in a week and restricts travel around the lower part of the country.
- Rudyard Kipling described the South Islands Milford Sound as the eighth wonder of the world.
- In particular searches have been made for the kiwi, blue duck, yellow head and the South Island kokako.
- In recent years, searches for the South Island kokako have been in Granville State Forest in the West Coast's Grey Valley and further north in the Paparoa Range near Charleston. Archive 2007-01-01
