New Zealand, a South Pacific country home to approximately 4,500,000 people, is occasionally mentioned in the script of "Coronation Street". A handy place to send characters so that viewers don't expect to see them again, or to dredge up "long-lost" relatives without having to explain why they have not been mentioned before. Roy Cropper's estranged father St. John was revealed to have remarried, had more children and emigrated to New Zealand.
It has also produced the occasional actor or other production worker.