{"id":31489,"date":"2025-03-26T06:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T00:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31489"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:51:41","slug":"south-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/south-island\/","title":{"rendered":"South Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>South Island Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off New Zealand&#8217;s South Island recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About South Island<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>larger and southernmost of the two principal islands of New Zealand<\/strong>, in the southwestern <strong>Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>separated from North Island<\/strong> to the north <strong>by Cook Strait<\/strong> and <strong>from Stewart Island<\/strong> to the south <strong>by Foveaux Strait.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mountainous terrain<\/strong> occupies almost three-quarters of South Island, with a <strong>central mountain chain<\/strong>, the <strong>Southern Alps<\/strong>, trending southwest to northeast and culminating at <strong>Mount Cook (3,754 metres).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Southern Alp<\/strong>s <strong>separate<\/strong> the narrow coastal strip of the <strong>Westland Plain (west) from <\/strong>the broad <strong>Canterbury Plains (east).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiordland National Park<\/strong> in the southwest is a distinctive area with its numerous <strong>coastal fjords (inlets) and high lakes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>park is part of the Te W\u0101hipounamu (South West New Zealand<\/strong>) area of protected wilderness along the west side of the island that was designated a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage site <\/strong>in 1990.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lakes<\/strong>: Includes <strong>Lake Tekapo, Lake Wakatipu<\/strong>, and <strong>Lake Pukaki.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has several large <strong>urban area<\/strong>s\u2014including <strong>Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>South Island FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Where is South Island located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is the larger and southernmost of the two principal islands of New Zealand, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What are the main cities in South Island?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Christchurch, Dunedin, and Invercargill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which strait separates South Island from North Island?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Cook Strait<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/kerala\/2025\/Jan\/31\/ed-cases-against-16-coop-banks-two-societies-in-kerala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Island, the larger of New Zealand\u2019s two main islands, boasts stunning landscapes, from majestic mountains to pristine lakes, in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}