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Southland

Southernmost region of South Island, New Zealand, including Stewart Island and Foveaux Strait; population (1996) 100,100. The main activities are sheep and cattle farming, forestry, and horticulture. A large exporting port is located at Bluff, which also supports a large fishing fleet, and produces cultivated oysters. The principal city is Invercargill.



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Quite different was it from the ordinary snow known to those of the Southland.
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Sometimes, when a soft southland dog went down, shrieking its death-cry under the fangs of the pack, this man would be unable to contain himself, and would leap into the air and cry out with delight.
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With this gracious speech Glinda dismissed the adventurers, and they wandered away through the beautiful gardens, where they passed several hours enjoying all the delightful things with which the Queen of the Southland had surrounded her royal palace.
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