South Island
About South Island
The South Island is the larger of the two main islands of New Zealand by surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. With a population of 1,256,700 as of June 2025, the South Island is home to 24% of New Zealand's 5.3 million inhabitants. The most populous cities are Christchurch, Dunedin, Nelson and Invercargill.
On the show — 14 mentions total
There is a $10,000 reward for any photographic proof of the South Island Coca-Co.
from No Such Thing as the Milkmaid's Tale, 2023-01-12 at 00:58:49 · read transcript
Other times South Island came up
Guy called ron jack nilson who very sadly passed away october 26 2022 um he was a legend of his field and he spent much like ken many many years looking for an elusive supposedly extinct species of bird which are called the south island coca-coa have you heard of that reese the south island coca-coa um oh yeah we found this this year in november wasn't it yeah it was the first of november last year yeah when did he die october 26 oh.
461: No Such Thing as the Milkmaid's Tale, 2023-01-13 · listen
Then they sort of climbed up the leg gradually, so they'd get longer, and men were wearing breeches when it got to about 14th, 15th century, so their trousers as it were would get shorter and shorter, and then eventually it got to a time in the 1400s where socks had turned into tights that basically revealed the arse, and your tunic or your breeches had become a jacket, and there were all these laws about who was allowed to show their bum and who wasn't, because the sock was basically the full leg covering by that point, and then they sort of descended again and got lower and lower until we have what we have today, which is the short sock and trousers, so they're just, they're up and down all the time. That sounds like the progress of the Korean War up and down the Korean Peninsula, do you remember? Because originally, the North had made its way almost to the complete South Island, and then there was a huge troop surge, and they got pushed back almost to China, and then it stabilised around, is it the 38th parallel? That's where they kind of came to. 38th parallel?
317: No Such Thing As Panic Buying Frankincense, 2020-04-17 · listen
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587: No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen
Yeah. Not since the 80s. Okay. It's been going, I think, since then. Okay. This is, have you heard of a town on the South Island called Middlemarch? It's small. Vaguely. Population 186 is small, right? Every two years, the population absolutely blooms for one night, which is when they have the Middle March ball. It's singles ball, because often, you know, if you're on the apps and the nearest matches 100 miles away, this is a problem.
No Such Thing As Chris Nibble, 2025-06-12 · listen
Coordinates: -43.6000, 170.4000