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North Island   /nɔrθ ˈaɪlənd/   Listen
North Island

noun
1.
The smaller but more populous of two main islands of New Zealand; separated from South Island by Cook Strait.



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"North Island" Quotes from Famous Books



... know that I have any right to say anything about New Zealand, seeing that I was only three days upon the North Island. I had indeed intended to have paid a proper visit. I had intended seeing the famous pink and white terraces (now alas! destroyed), and the rest of the lake district; and at various places I had a good many introductions ...
— Six Letters From the Colonies • Robert Seaton
... and some of sixty feet high, without branch or top, have shot out small green twigs, forming a curious contrast with their scathed trunks. Melons, limes, and other seeds, sown by the officers, now coming up. Two native canoes took up a position near the north island, and afterwards their people passed along the reef fishing. Captain Doutty counted twenty-four persons on the reef, besides those left in care of the canoes. A soldier of the 50th died in hospital ...
— The Wreck on the Andamans • Joseph Darvall


Words linked to "North Island" :   New Zealand, New Zealand Islands, island


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