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You are looking for 5 Star Hotels in South Island, New Zealand. We are bringing you one step closer to finding your perfect accommodation solution.
In South Island we have holiday accommodation properties of the following types: 4 Star Hotels, 5 Star Hotels, Apartments, Backpackers, Beaches, Bed and Breakfasts, Campings, Caravan Parks, Cottages, Golf Resorts, Holiday Homes, Houses, Inns, Lodges, Motels, Residences, Resorts and Villas.
Some of our popular destinations for holiday accommodation in South Island include: Canterbury, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Kaikoura, Marlborough, Marlborough Sounds, Murchison, Nelson, Otago, Picton, Punakaiki, Queenstown, Southland, West Coast and Westport.
Our featured holiday accommodation properties in South Island include: Buller Bridge Motel, Terrace Downs Villas, Owen River Lodge, Glenfern Villas, Rapahoe Beach Holiday Camp, McCormick House Luxury Accommodation, Charlie B's Backpackers, Titoki, Olive Grove Lodge And Holiday Park, Aloha Motel Christchurch, Korimako Lodge, Dallington House, The Beach House, Kowhai Cottage and Explorer Motor Lodge.
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The South Island forms one of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the North Island. The Maori name for the South Island is Te Wai Pounamu which means "The Greenstone Water" (greenstone being jade).
It has an area of 58,093 square miles), making it the world's 12th-largest island. Along its west coast runs the mountain chain of the Southern Alps; Aoraki/Mount Cook is the highest point, 3,754 m (12,283.3') above sea level.
Historical Note: In the 19th century, today's South Island bore the name Middle Island, and the name South Island referred to today's Stewart Island/Rakiura.
The South Island is often called the Mainland (somewhat humorously) because it is larger than the North Island, and because it existed first according to the corresponding Maori legend. The North island, however, is more populous, being home to three million out of a total of four million kiwis.
Some North Islanders (especially Aucklanders) even refer to the South Island as though it were ... Read More...
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Teviot Woolshed - Otago, South Island in New Zealand
Teviot Woolshed
History & Culture in the Central Otago Region
Unusual attractions - A whopping great woolshed and two lonely graves.
A Whopping Great Woolshed and Two Lonely Graves
The Teviot Woolshed (c. 1870) was believed to have been built out of an old railway station, dismantled and sent out from England. The biggest woolshed in the Southern Hemisphere, the Teviot was 137metres long, 47.3metres wide and could hold 8,000 sheep.-. In 1924 the shed was destroyed by fire and only the stone walls with rounded façade and arched windows remain today.
The Lonely Graves, located at the Horseshoe Bend Diggings on the banks of the Clutha River south of Roxburgh, consist of the graves of ‘Somebody’s Darling’ and William Rigney. The story goes that in 1865 William Rigney discovered the body of a young man on the riverbank following a flood. He arranged an inquest and burial for the unknown miner, erecting a headstone with the words ‘Somebody’s Darling Lies Buried He ... Read More...
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 You are looking for 5 Star Hotels in South Island, New Zealand
Our featured holiday accommodation properties in South Island include: Aloha Motel Christchurch, Buller Bridge Motel, Charlie B's Backpackers, Dallington House, Explorer Motor Lodge, Glenfern Villas, Korimako Lodge, Kowhai Cottage, McCormick House Luxury Accommodation, Olive Grove Lodge And Holiday Park, Owen River Lodge, Rapahoe Beach Holiday Camp, Terrace Downs Villas, The Beach House and Titoki.
In South Island we have holiday accommodation properties of the following types: 4 Star Hotels, 5 Star Hotels, Apartments, Backpackers, Beaches, Bed and Breakfasts, Campings, Caravan Parks, Cottages, Golf Resorts, Holiday Homes, Houses, Inns, Lodges, Motels, Residences, Resorts and Villas.
Some of our popular destinations for holiday accommodation in South Island include: Canterbury, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Kaikoura, Marlborough, Marlborough Sounds, Murchison, Nelson, Otago, Picton, Punakaiki, Queenstown, Southland, West Coast and Westport.
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