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Explore Great Rides and Touring Routes. This is New Zealand, in all its colour and beauty – from the highest mountain, past great lakes and river, down to the ocean. It's a journey that will stay with you always. JASON MENARD – Tourism Waitaki. The remote west coast is one of the Far North’s better- kept secrets. Outside holiday season, the Kauri Coast Cycleway presents a sparsely populated, dramatic landscape that is a dream come true for cyclists. JONATHAN KENNETT – Cycling Author. Cyclists will be attracted to the Queenstown Trail because of the iconic mountain scenery and the existing tourism attractions such as the wineries and the Kawarau Bungy venture. JOHN DUNN – Former Programme Manager, NZ Cycle Trail.
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The Roxburgh Gorge Trail is an exciting addition to Central Otago’s trail network, traversing a fantastically remote part of our district which boasts a rich cultural heritage. TONY LEPPER – Mayor, Central Otago District.
The St James Trail is a real tourism asset and I have no doubt it will draw thousands of cyclists a year. The landscape is stunning. KATE WILKINSON – Former Minister of Conservation.
New Zealand - Wikitravel. New Zealand. Location. Flag. Quick Facts. Capital. Wellington. Government parliamentary democracy.
Currency New Zealand dollar ($, NZD). Area 2. 67,7. 10km². Population 4,3. 47,0. February 2. 00. 9 estimate). Language official: English, Māori and New Zealand sign language. Religion unspecified/none 4.
Anglican 1. 7%, Roman Catholic 1. Presbyterian 1. 1%, Methodist 3%, Pentecostal 1. Baptist 1. 3%, other Christian 9%, other 3%. Electricity 2. 30. V, 5. 0Hz (NZ plug).
Country code +6. 4. Internet TLD . nz. Time Zone UTC +1.
DST +1. 3). Emergencies dial 1. New Zealand is a country of stunning and diverse natural beauty: jagged mountains, rolling pasture land, steep fiords, pristine trout- filled lakes, raging rivers, scenic beaches, and active volcanic zones. These islands are one of Earth's most peculiar bioregions, inhabited by flightless birds seen nowhere else such as a nocturnal, burrowing parrot called the kakapo and kiwi. Kiwi are not only one of the national symbols – the others being the silver fern leaf and koru – but also the name New Zealanders usually call themselves. These islands are sparsely populated, particularly away from the North Island, but easily accessible.
There are sparklingly modern visitor facilities, and transport networks are well developed with Airports throughout the country and well maintained highways. New Zealand often adds an adventure twist to nature: it's the original home of jet- boating through shallow gorges, and bungy jumping off anything high enough to give a thrill. Māori culture continues to play an important part in everyday life and government and corporate symbolism with abundant opportunities for visitors to understand and experience both the history and present day forms of Māori life. Understand[edit]New Zealand has been called "God's own country" and the "Paradise of the Pacific" since the early 1. New Zealand is sometimes known, both in the indigenous Māori language and by Pakeha, as Aotearoa, translated as the long white cloud. Geography[edit]Consisting of two main islands - imaginatively named North Island and South Island and many smaller ones in the South Pacific Ocean, this archipelago lies 1,6. Australia. New Zealand is the fifth largest wholly island nation on earth, its land area surpassed only by Australia, Indonesia, Japan and the Phillipines; NZ's maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is fifteen times larger, being exceeded only by Australia in the preceding list.
Consequently and with a population of nearly 4. United Kingdom, many areas are sparsely settled. Be sure to allow sufficient time to travel in New Zealand. Distances are larger than you probably think and many roads wind along the coast and through mountain ranges (particularly on the South Island). It's rewarding to tour for three or four weeks on each of the main islands, although you can certainly see some of the highlights in less time.
Australians often call NZ "The Shaky Isles" because of frequent seismic activity. Lying on the margin of the two colliding tectonic plates (the Pacific and Indo- Australian), earthquakes are common, particularly in the south west of the South Island and in the central North Island, and the North Island's scenery is marked by several active and dormant volcanic cones. The largest lake, Lake Taupo drained by NZ's longest river, the Waikato River, lies in a caldera created by a super- volcanic eruption 2. The volcano underneath is dormant rather than extinct.
Recording more than 1. Japan. Auckland, with a population of around 1. Polynesia. Indeed, many small pacific nations, such as the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau, have more of their national population living in Metro Auckland than in their home islands! NZ Government Statistics.) This makes for some interesting shopping and ethnic eating opportunities.
Settlement and history[edit]New Zealand was the last significant land mass on earth to be settled by humans. East Polynesians reached New Zealand about 7. New Zealand - some 4. Australia. Their populations grew rapidly and led to the extinction of many unique species of flightless birds, including all 9 species of Moa, some of which grew to about 3. Over time their culture in these colder lands diverged into the unique Māori that the artists of Captain Cook recorded.
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, in 1. Polynesian to sight the North West coast of the South Island of New Zealand.(There is a claim, disputed by most historians, that a Portuguese expedition led by Cristovao de Mendonça beat him to it over a hundred years before in 1. Tasman named his find Staten Landt (on the assumption that it was connected to Staten Island, Argentina at the south of the tip of South America) and this appeared on maps from as early as 1. His two ships stopped to take on fresh water in Golden Bay, but were attacked by Māori and four of his men and several Māori were killed there - causing him to name it "Murderer's Bay". Leaving the South Island by sailing up the west coast of the North Island, he mapped a small portion of the coastline; Dutch cartographers re- named this known part as Nova Zeelandia. As part of a dedicated voyage of scientific discovery, Yorkshireman James Cook, a Captain of the Royal Navy, circumnavigated the North, South and Stewart islands in 1.
A few people of European and US origin, mostly sealers, whalers, traders and missionaries, settled during the next 8. In 1. 84. 0, with the assistance of missionaries, Māori signed different versions of the Treaty of Waitangi and there have been arguments as to the meaning of the Maori version ever since.
More intensive European (Pākehā) settlement began that same year. Initially annexed to the colony of New South Wales, New Zealand was split off to form a separate colony in 1. A series of land wars between 1. European diseases, broke Māori resistance to Pākehā land settlement, but left lasting grievances.
In recent years the government has sought to address long standing Māori grievances, but this is a complicated and rancorous process. In 2. 00. 5, the Māori Party was formed, in part in response to the Government's law on the Foreshore and Seabed but also to promote an independent Māori perspective at a political level. When the six British colonies federated to form Australia in 1. New Zealand decided not to join the federation. Instead, the British colony of New Zealand became a self- governing dominion in 1. It was offered complete independence under the 1.
Statute of Westminster, although it did not adopt this until 1. All remaining constitutional links with the United Kingdom were severed with the passing of the New Zealand Constitution Act by both parliaments in 1. Queen Elizabeth II in right of New Zealand remains the Head of State (with a local Governor- General (appointed only after local advice) as her representative in New Zealand.
New Zealand supported the United Kingdom militarily in the Boer War of 1. World Wars. It also participated in wars in Malaya, Korea and Vietnam under various military alliances, including the ANZUS treaty with Australia and the United States.
More information about New Zealand's military history can be found at the National Army Museum. New Zealand's population has strongly opposed the testing and use of nuclear weapons. The prospect of nuclear armed US warship visits meant that its Parliament enacted anti- nuclear legislation in the mid- 1. After consultations with Australia, the US announced that it was suspending its treaty obligations to New Zealand until US Navy ships were re- admitted to New Zealand ports, stating that New Zealand was "a friend, but not an ally".
Military relations were not repaired until 2. New Zealand is now a socially enterprising, vigorous and independent nation with a widely- travelled and well- educated population of more than 4 million. More than one million New Zealanders were born overseas. Of the other 3 million native "Kiwis", one in four (one in three between ages 2.
Godzone" for more favourable economic opportunities abroad (often to Australia where "Kiwis" uniquely don't need a visa). This former British colony has a population mainly of European descent but with an important indigenous Māori minority, a rapidly growing Asian minority, and smaller minorities of Polynesians, and people from the Americas and Africa. This page is mainly about the core of New Zealand; see our separate pages about other parts of the Realm of New Zealand: Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Ross Dependency. Time zones[edit]The Chatham Islands, 8.