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North Island... or South Island?

Is the answer to these New Zealand clues the North, or South, Island?
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Last updated: February 18, 2019
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First submittedFebruary 18, 2019
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1. Is larger
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2. Is more populous
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3. NZ's hottest ever temperature, 42° C, recorded on 7 February 1973
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In Rangiora, North Canterbury
4. NZ's coldest ever temperature, -26° C, recorded on 18 July 1903
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In Ranfurly, Central Otago
5. The Treaty of Waitangi signed here on 6 February 1840
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It was then taken around both islands to collect more chiefs' signatures
6. The first commercial bungy jump operation operates here
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Off a disused road bridge over Kawarau River near Queenstown
7. Captain James Cook's 1769 expedition makes landfall here, becoming the first European visitors to New Zealand
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At Gisborne
8. Mt Ngauruhoe, (Mt Doom in the Lord of the Rings movies), is here
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9. New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo, is here
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10. The highest peak, Aoraki / Mt Cook, is here
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11. The Interislander ferry departs from Picton on this island
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... sailing to Wellington in the North
12. Was known as Middle Island until 1907
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13. Its other official name is Te Waipounamu, meaning Waters of Greenstone
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14. First public railway is built in 1863
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From Christchurch to Ferrymead
15. Location of all three of New Zealand's capital cities
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Okiato (Bay of Islands), then Auckland, then, from 1865, Wellington
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