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Covering some 4,000 km 2 (1,500 sq mi) of sounds, islands, and peninsulas, the Marlborough Sounds lie at the South Island's north-easternmost point, between Tasman Bay in the west and Cloudy Bay in the south-east. The almost fractal coastline has 1/10 of the length of New Zealand's coasts. [3]
For the Māori roll, Marlborough is part of the Te Tai Tonga electorate, as is the entire South Island. [16] The electorate was first contested in the 1996 general election, the first under the new MMP voting system. From 1938 to 1996, the region was covered by the Marlborough electorate. [17]
Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui [a] is the easternmost of the main sounds of the Marlborough Sounds, in New Zealand's South Island. Its original Māori name is after the local tōtara trees. [2] In 2014, the sound was given the official name of Queen Charlotte Sound / Tōtaranui as part of a Waitangi Tribunal settlement with the Te Āti Awa ...
In the early years of European settlement in New Zealand, the South Island's overall percentage of the New Zealand population was far higher, equalling or even exceeding the population of the North Island. This was exacerbated by the New Zealand Wars and the Otago gold rush of the 1860s. Since that time, the South Island's population as a ...
South Cape / Whiore is a cape marking the southernmost point of Stewart Island / Rakiura, and by extension the main New Zealand archipelago. It is one of the four Cardinal Capes of New Zealand identified by Captain James Cook on his first voyage, along with North Cape, Cape East and West Cape. [1] Cook originally named the place "Cape South". [2]
Marlboro's Christian LaFonte runs against South Brunswick in the football South Group 5 playoff game on Oct. 28, 2023 Cassidy rushed for 123 yards on 15 carries and scored from runs of 40, 15 and ...
Long Island is located in Queen Charlotte Sound, one of the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. [1] James Cook recorded its original name as Hamote. [2]The island is long and thin - just over 1.41 square kilometres (0.54 sq mi) in area with a length of 4 km (2.5 mi) (the long axis being aligned north-east to south-west) and a maximum width of 1 km (0.62 mi).
Module:Location map/data/New Zealand South Island is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of South Island. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.