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Nature Tour Attractions In South Island

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The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The South Island covers 150,437 square kilometres , making it the world's 12th-largest island. It has a temperate climate. It has a 32 percent larger landmass than the North Island so is sometimes referred to as the mainland of New Zealand, especially by South Island residents, but only 23 percent of New Zealand's 4.9 million inhabitants live there. In the early stages of European settl...
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Nature Tour Attractions In South Island

  • 3. Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony Oamaru
    Oamaru is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is 80 kilometres south of Timaru and 120 kilometres north of Dunedin on the Pacific coast; State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of 13,950, Oamaru is the 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown. The name Oamaru derives from the Māori and can be translated as the place of Maru . The identity of Maru remains open to conjecture.
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  • 6. Real Journeys Manapouri
    Real Journeys is a major South Island and New Zealand award-winning tourism company, privately owned by the Hutchins family since 1954. It operates world renowned cruises in Milford and Doubtful Sounds, the legendary vintage steamship TSS Earnslaw on Lake Wakatipu, the Te Anau-au glowworm caves, Stewart Island ferry services, excursions and lodge accommodation as well as Cardrona Alpine Resort and the International Antarctic Centre and is recognised as one of the most influential contributors to the country’s international tourism profile. Founders Sir Les and Olive Lady Hutchins originally established the Manapouri-Doubtful Sound Tourist Company and later purchased Fiordland Travel in 1966 which was rebranded in 2002 as Real Journeys. The early focus was on tourist boating and cruising ...
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  • 12. Skippers Canyon Jet Queenstown
    Skippers Canyon is a historic and scenic gorge, some 22 kilometres in length, several kilometres north of Queenstown, New Zealand. Today accessed from Queenstown via the same road that leads to the Coronet Peak skifield, Skippers Canyon is carved out by the Shotover River. The Shotover, one of New Zealand's richest gold-bearing rivers, was named by William Gilbert Rees who with his wife Frances and brother-in-law Nicholas von Tunzelmann were the first European settlers in and near where Queenstown is now. Once a busy goldmining area, Skippers Canyon was accessed by Skippers Road, which is today one of New Zealand's better known scenic roads. The main New Zealand road where rental car insurance is not honoured, Skippers Road is mostly one-way, narrow and steep with sheer drops of several hu...
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  • 15. Seal Swim Kaikoura Kaikoura
    Arctocephalus forsteri, the Australasian fur seal, South Australian fur seal, New Zealand fur seal, Antipodean fur seal, or long-nosed fur seal, is a species of fur seal found mainly around the South and Western coasts and offshore islands of Australia, and the North Island and South Island of New Zealand. The name New Zealand fur seal is used by English speakers in New Zealand; kekeno is used in the Māori language. As of 2014, the common name long-nosed fur seal has been proposed for the population of seals inhabiting Australia.The seal is native to Macquarie Island, South Australia, and Western Australia, and the North Island and South Island of New Zealand. Although the Australian and New Zealand populations show some genetic differences, their morphologies are very similar, and thus t...
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