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6 unusual facts about Southland


Billy Stead

Stead also played provincially for Southland, and later coached various teams, including Southland and the New Zealand Māori.

Giselle Bonilla

She has appeared in many television series including a recurring role in Southland.

Josh Bekhuis

Bekhuis began his career with Southland in 2006 after a successful time with the Southland Boys' High School First XV.

Joshua Bekhuis (born 26 April 1985) is a professional rugby union player who plays at lock for the Highlanders in the Super Rugby competition and provincially for Southland in the ITM Cup.

Justin Marshall

Marshall began his rugby union career with Southland and was then asked to join Christchurch by Canterbury coach Vance Stewart.

Southland Center

Westfield Southland, a retail complex in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia


't Gulden Zeepaert

It appears that in January 1627 the vessel encountered the Southland in the vicinity of Cape Leeuwin.

1950 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia

The Lions won the opening four fixtures before losing to Otago and Southland, but succeeded in holding the All Blacks to a nine-all draw.

Acaena tesca

Acaena tesca is a species of low growing perennial plant restricted to the upper slopes of the mountains of central Otago and northern Southland in the South Island of New Zealand.

Albert Burbank

Broadcast performances made with Kid Ory's band at San Francisco's Hangover Club have been issued on the Danish Storyville label, and some with trombonist, Bill Matthews appear on Southland.

Ally Walker

From 2005 to 2010, Walker played many guest roles on TV shows, such as Sleeper Cell, ER, Boston Legal, Law & Order, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Southland and Law and Order: SVU.

Awarua Plains

The Mataura River is the major river responsible for the presence of the Awarua Plain; along with the Oreti River, it is a remnant of the rivers from the Ice Ages that formed the Southland Plains (Murihiku).

Bisset v Wilkinson

Mr Wilkinson and Mr Bisset entered into a contract in May, 1919, whereby Mr Wilkinson would purchase two adjoining blocks of land called Homestead and Hogan’s, in Avondale, Northern Southland, New Zealand.

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.

Brother Phelps

They were raised in the Missouri Bootheel and Doug graduated from a small school named Southland located in Cardwell, Missouri.

Chiltonia

Subsequent taxonomic splits have retricted the name to the populations in the Southland and Otago Regions in New Zealand's South Island.

Cue TV

In 2003, after Tom Conroy purchased the station, the station was rebranded as Southland TV and the station went nationwide when it launched on the SKY Digital network on Channel 90.

Elizabeth De Razzo

After acting in Cold Case, ER, United States of Tara and Southland she was cast for the second season of Eastbound & Down.

Geoff Rabone

Geoffrey Osborne Rabone (born 6 November 1921 in Gore, Southland, New Zealand and died 19 January 2006 in Auckland) was a cricketer who captained New Zealand in five Test matches in 1953-54 and 1954-55.

Gore District

Gore, New Zealand, a town, surrounding borough, and district in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.

Guy Overton

Guy William Fitzroy Overton (8 June 1919 in Dunedin – 7 September 1993 in Winton, Southland) was a New Zealand cricketer who played three Tests in 1953-54.

Henry family of New Zealand

The Henrys on arriving in New Zealand founded a timbermilling operation near Riverton in Southland .

Herty, Texas

The establishment of the Southland Paper Mills adjacent to the Angelina and Neches River Railroad in 1940 led to the creation of Herty.

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra

It is the largest performing arts organization in the Chicago Southland, with administrative offices in Park Forest.

Intef the Elder

Intef may also be mentioned on a stele from Dendera, now in Strasburg, which further gives him the title of "Great prince of the southland".

J. R. Temple

He spend six years with Southland Ice Company (the parent company of 7-Eleven) and vice-president and president of Oak Farms Ltd.

John Philp Thompson, Sr.

John Philp Thompson again made history when under his guidance, Southland Corp. (7-Eleven) raised $81.5 million for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, prompting Jerry Lewis to write, “You accomplished so much, and you and your father before you built a monument. The good you've done will never be forgotten.”

Mark Dickel

Dickel's brother, Richard, is currently the head coach of the Adelaide Lighting and former Waikato Piston, Otago Nugget, Southland Shark, Southland Under 17, Under 19 and Under 21 coach.

Matt Holloway

He is currently playing for London Wasps A in the United Kingdom after playing for Counties Manukau Steelers in the 2009 Air New Zealand Cup on loan from Southland who he played for in 2007 and 2008.

More FM

The 91.6 MHz frequency that Radio Pacific (BSport's predecessor) broadcast on was used to launch The Breeze into Southland.

Movie Quik

Movie-Quik and 7-Eleven stores were part of Southland's convenience stores along with their auto parts chain, Chief Auto Parts, later spun off to GE.

New Zealand Coot

It was described in 1893 by New Zealand naturalist, ethnologist and museum director Augustus Hamilton, from material he had collected the previous year at Castle Rocks on the Oreti River in Southland.

New Zealand State Highway 93

State Highway 93 is a New Zealand State Highway connecting the Southland township of Mataura with the Western Otago town of Clinton.

Noholme

A successful stallion at Goff's Verna Lea Farm in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1967 he was syndicated for $1-million and moved to Robin's Nest Farm near Ocala, Florida then in 1974 to the nearby stud farm owned by Dan Lasater (now Southland Farm) where he died on 17 May 1983 at the age of 27.

Otago Access Radio

One of the regular shows on the station is Write On, the radio show of the Otago Southland branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors, hosted by local crime fiction author Vanda Symon.

Pine Bush

Pine Bush, New Zealand, a locality in the Southland region of New Zealand

Queens Park A.F.C.

In 1960 the senior team was promoted to the premier Southland competition, the Donald Gray Memorial Cup.

Reginald Spencer Browne

In September Major General Legge sent for him to replace the commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade who had drowned following the torpedoing of the troop transport Southland.

Southland Boys' High School

Southland Boys' High School (SBHS) is an all-boys school in Invercargill, New Zealand, and has been the only one in the city since Marist Brothers was merged with St Catherines to form Verdon College in 1982.

Southland Sharks

Southland Sharks game highlights and player interviews are broadcast weekly on Invercargill-based television channel Cue TV.

Star Rugby Club

Star Rugby Club is an amateur rugby team that plays in the ILT Southland Wide Premier Division.

Tetrachondra

Its distribution range is disjunct: one species is endemic to New Zealand (mainly Stewart Island, Otago and Southland) while the other one is endemic to southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

Thornbury, New Zealand

Thornbury is a small township on the east bank of the lower Aparima River, in western Southland, New Zealand.

Tim Solliday

Using the pastel medium, he, Karl and Peter Seitz Adams went on plein-air trips to the local foothills, the Southland beaches, including trips to the ocean and the San Gabriel Mountains.

Verdon College

Highlanders First XV Competition - Verdon are one of four Southland schools that compete in the Highlanders First XV competition (the other three are Southland Boys, Gore High and Central Southland College).

William Soltau Davidson

He converted some land to dairying in southland, helping establish a cheese making industry in Edendale.


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