Southland
Southland is the southernmost region in the South Island of New Zealand. It boasts stunning landscapes from the high mountains and icy glaciers to green and lush grasslands on the plains where agriculture is king.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Fiordland National Park and Invercargill.
Fiordland National Park
Fiordland National Park, covering 12,607 km2, is New Zealand's largest national park with its snow-capped mountains, fiords and contains one of New Zealand's wildest and most dramatic landscapes.
Invercargill
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Invercargill, the most southerly city in New Zealand, was built in the late 19th and early 20th century, and its wide streets and century old buildings give the visitor a unique feeling of stepping back in time to when business was conducted in a more sedate and considered manner and the streets were paved with Central Otago gold.
Milford Sound
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Milford Sound / Piopiotahi is a spectacular glacier-carved fiord and town in Fiordland National Park on the west coast of New Zealand and is one of New Zealand's most well known scenic attractions.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Te Anau and Gore.
Te Anau
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Te Anau is a small town on the shore of Lake Te Anau, in the Southland region of the South Island. It is the gateway to Fiordland National Park and Milford Road.
Gore
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Gore is a town of 8,200 people in the Southland region of New Zealand that is known as the world's capital of brown trout fishing, and New Zealand's capital of country music. It is on State Highway 1 about an hour's drive from Invercargill.
Bluff
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Bluff is a small port town and the southernmost town on the South Island of New Zealand. It is 30 km south of the city of Invercargill.
The Catlins
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The Catlins is a hilly, forested coastal area in the south-eastern corner of the South Island. Its attractions include coastal scenery, marine mammals such as fur seals, sea lions and rare Hector's dolphins, rare yellow-eyed penguins, native forest walks and birdlife, and the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay.
Mataura
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Mataura is a rural service town on the Mataura River, 13 km south of Gore, in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand.
Manapouri
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Manapouri is a town of 222 in the Southland region of the South Island of New Zealand. It isn't an attraction of itself, but rather serves as a gateway for exploring the southern fiords and sounds of Fiordland National Park, most prominently Doubtful Sound and Dusky Sound.
Mossburn
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Mossburn is a small stopover town of 180 along the way to Te Anau in Southland. It's not much of a destination of its own, but there have been growing efforts to make it given its prime location.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Southland
- Type: region of New Zealand with 104,000 residents
- Description: region in southern New Zealand
- Also known as: “Southland Region”
- Neighbors: Otago and West Coast
- Location: South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Southland” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إقليم سوثلاند”
- Aragonese: “Rechión de Southland”
- Armenian: “Սաութլենդ”
- Asturian: “Southland”
- Basque: “Southland eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Саўтленд”
- Bengali: “সাউথল্যান্ড অঞ্চল”
- Bulgarian: “Саутланд”
- Catalan: “Southland”
- Cebuano: “Southland”
- Chinese: “南地”
- Chinese: “南地大区”
- Chinese: “南地大區”
- Chinese: “南部地区”
- Danish: “Southland Region”
- Dutch: “Southland”
- Esperanto: “Murihiku”
- Esperanto: “Southland”
- Esperanto: “sudlanda regiono”
- Esperanto: “Sudlanda regiono”
- Esperanto: “Sudlando Regiono”
- Esperanto: “Sudlando”
- Estonian: “Southlandi piirkond”
- Finnish: “Southland”
- French: “région de Southland”
- French: “Southland”
- Galician: “Southland”
- Georgian: “საუთლანდის რეგიონი”
- Georgian: “საუთლენდის რეგიონი”
- German: “NZ-STL”
- German: “Southland”
- Greek: “Σάουθλαντ”
- Gujarati: “દક્ષિણલેન્ડ પ્રદેશ”
- Hebrew: “סאוסלנד”
- Hebrew: “סאות’לנד”
- Hindi: “साउथलैंड क्षेत्र”
- Hindi: “साउथलैण्ड क्षेत्र”
- Indonesian: “Region Southland”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Southland”
- Italian: “Southland”
- Japanese: “サウスランド地方”
- Kannada: “ಸೌತ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Korean: “사우스랜드 지방”
- Korean: “사우슬랜드 지방”
- Korean: “사우슬랜드”
- Latvian: “Sautlenda”
- Latvian: “Sautlendas reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Sautlando regionas”
- Lithuanian: “Soutlando regionas”
- Macedonian: “Саутленд”
- Malay: “Wilayah Southland”
- Maori: “Murihiku”
- Maori: “Takiwā o Murihiku”
- Maori: “Te Taurapa o Te Waka”
- Marathi: “साउथलँड प्रदेश”
- Moroccan Arabic: “جيهة ساوتلاند”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Southland, New Zealand”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Southland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Southland på New Zealand”
- Norwegian: “Southland”
- Persian: “سرزمین جنوبی، نیوزیلند”
- Persian: “منطقه ساوتلند”
- Polish: “Southland”
- Portuguese: “Southland”
- Russian: “Сауслэнд”
- Russian: “Саутленд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Southland Region”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Southland”
- Sinhala: “සවුත්ලන්ඩ් කලාපය, නවසීලන්තය”
- Sinhala: “සවුත්ලන්ඩ් කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “NZ-STL”
- Slovenian: “Regija Southland”
- Slovenian: “Southland Region”
- Spanish: “Región de Southland”
- Spanish: “Southland”
- Swedish: “Southland”
- Tamil: “தெற்கு லாந்து பகுதி”
- Telugu: “సౌత్లాండ్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “เซาท์แลนด์”
- Turkish: “Southland Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Southland”
- Ukrainian: “Саутленд”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ لینڈ ریجن”
- Urdu: “ساؤتھ لینڈ، نیوزی لینڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Southland”
- Western Armenian: “Սաութլենտի շրջան”
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