Invercargill
Americannoun
noun
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The rain was belting down in Invercargill, the southernmost spot in New Zealand, a place founded by a Scottish settler in the 1850s and nicknamed the city of water and light.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Police said the officer, who they identified only as Constable Kurt, was shown an array of toys at the boy’s house in the South Island city of Invercargill.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 19, 2021
When I left, it was winter in Los Angeles, and when I arrived, it was summer in Invercargill, a port city at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island.
From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2021
As the conservation biologist on the kakapo team, I work mainly in our office in Invercargill on South Island, New Zealand, 60 kilometres from one of our sanctuary islands.
From Nature • Apr. 20, 2020
A few miles out from Invercargill, passed through vast level green expanses snowed over with sheep.
From Following the Equator, Part 4 by Twain, Mark
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