Map of South Island Regional

Map of South Island Regional

The South Island is the beyond of the two above islands of New Zealand, the added actuality the added crawling Arctic Island. It is belted to the arctic by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The area of the South Island covers 151,215 aboveboard kilometres (58,384 sq mi) and is afflicted by a abstemious climate.
The South Island is sometimes alleged the "mainland". While it has a 33% beyond landmass than the Arctic Island, alone 24% of New Zealand's 4.4 actor citizenry alive in the South Island. In the aboriginal stages of European (Pākehā) adjustment of the country, the South Island had the majority of the European citizenry and abundance due to the 1860s gold rushes. The Arctic Island citizenry overtook the South in the aboriginal 20th century, with 56% of the citizenry active in the Arctic in 1911, and the alluvion arctic of bodies and businesses connected throughout the century.