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6 unusual facts about Marlborough region


Black-fronted Tern

Within New Zealand, the Black-fronted Tern is found from the southern tip of the North Island, and along much of the eastern South Island from Marlborough to Southland, and to Stewart Island.

Gavin Richards

Theatre South is the only professional theatre company in Malrborough, where he once resided.

Muehlenbeckia astonii

astonii is found only at the southern tip of the North Island (Palliser Bay) and on the eastern side of the South Island from northern Marlborough to Birdlings Flat at the south-west edge of Banks Peninsula.

New Zealand Falcon

In 2005 funding was given by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry towards a programme that uses the falcons to control birds that damage grapes and act as pests in vineyards as well as monitoring the birds and establishing a breeding population in the vicinity of the Marlborough wine region.

Sophora longicarinata

Sophora longicarinata is commonly known as kōwhai or limestone kōwhai that grows naturally in a limited range around northern Nelson and also western Marlborough in New Zealand.

Sophora prostrata

Sophora prostrata is commonly known as kōwhai, prostrate kōwhai or dwarf kōwhai and grows naturally in the eastern South Island from Marlborough to the Waitaki Valley in New Zealand.


New Zealand State Highway 63

It is 117 km long and runs between the settlements of Renwick (in Marlborough) and Kawatiri Junction (in the Tasman region) via Saint Arnaud, providing a bypass of the city of Nelson.

Signals intelligence operational platforms by nation

As of 2013, New Zealand has two ground-based signals intelligence stations at Tangimoana in the North Island's Manawatu-Wanganui region and the Waihopai Valley in the South Island's Marlborough region.


see also

Marlborough Boys' College

Sounds FM was a radio station in the Marlborough region of New Zealand which originated as a Marlborough College-based radio station, X-Static FM operated by The X-Static Society. The station was based at the College and broadcast on 89FM with the callsign 2STA.

New Zealand State Highway 62

Located entirely within the wine-producing Marlborough region of New Zealand, SH 62 provides a northern bypass of Blenheim, connecting the towns of Spring Creek (on State Highway 1) with Renwick (on State Highway 6) via the locality of Rapaura.

Ugbrooke

William Clifford, son of Lord Clifford of Ugbrooke, Chudleigh, bought a large amount of agricultural land in the Marlborough region of New Zealand and built a mansion named after the family home.

Wairau

Wairau Valley, a valley of the Wairau River in the Marlborough Region

Wairau River, a river in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island