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South Island   /saʊθ ˈaɪlənd/   Listen
South Island

noun
1.
The larger but less populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from North Island by Cook Strait.





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"South island" Quotes from Famous Books



... season of the year (during the whole of the month of August) to sail from Norway to Novaya Zemlya, make sporting exclusions there, and return without having seen a trace of ice or snow. This holds good indeed only of the low-lying part of the south island, but in any case it shows how erroneous the prevailing idea of the natural state of Novaya Zemlya is. By the end of June or beginning of July the greater part of Gooseland is nearly free of snow, and soon after the Arctic flower-world ...
— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold


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