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Unit 19 New Zealand
Background
COUNTRY STATISTICS
Area: 103,500 sq.miles (268,000 sq.km)
Population: 3,575,000
Currency: 1 NZ dollar = 100 cents
Exchange Rate: NZ$ 1.862 = US$ 1
Capital: Wellington
Languages: English, Maori
Total GDP: US$ 53,400,000,000
Imports: US$ 10,400,000,000
Population Growth: 1.24%
Death Rate: 8.4/1000 people
Life Expectancy: 75.5 years
Number of Goats: 484,000Per Capita PPP: US$ 11,360
Exports: US$ 11,200,000,000
Population Density: 13 people/sq.km
Birth Rate: 17.3/1000 people
Infant Mortality: 9/1000 live births
Number of Pigs: 430,000
Main Cities: Auckland, Christchurch,
Religions: Anglican, Presbyterian, Hamilton Roman
Catholic
National Flag
The Southern Alps
Rainforest with ferns,the national symbol of New Zealand
Introduction & history
This is the land of the Maori, kiwi, tuatara, and more
sheep than people. New Zealand was uninhabited (by
humans) until the Maori, a Polynesian people, arrived in
the 14th century. They refused to let the first European
explorers set foot on their shores. In 1840 Maori chiefs and
British officials entered into the Treaty of Waitangi, which
handed New Zealand government over to England.
Skirmishes and outright Maori wars,mostly over
settlement land
deals, continued for the next 30 years. New
Zealand was freed from colonial status in 1907
but retained the reigning British monarch as
its head of state. It is a stable, harmonious,
progressive parliamentary democracy. New
Zealand remains responsible for the defense
and international relations of independent
territories Niue and Cook Islands. Today the
land is still mostly unspoiled countryside. On
South Island lives the world's only mountaindwelling parrot, the social but fearless kea.
Wellington,the capital of New Zealand and its harbor
Hot Sulphur springs at Rotorua in
New Zealand’s North Island
GEOGRAPHY & TOURISM
Made up of two main islands (North and South,
divided by the Cook Strait), Stewart Island, and a
number of smaller islands, New Zealand is less
than 1/28th the size of neighboring Australia. The
Southern Alps run through the middle of South
Island, providing some of the best skiing in the
southern hemisphere. North Island's central
volcanic mountainous region, where there are hot
springs
and geysers, reaches to more than 9,000 ft
(2,736 m) at Mount Ruapehu and contains
Lake Taupo, New Zealand's largest lake. Most
of the population lives on North Island, home
to the capital, Wellington, and the largest city,
Auckland. The biggest cities on South Island
are Christchurch and Dunedin. New Zealand's
scenery is remarkably beautiful and lush, and
the climate, ranging from almost tropical in
the north to alpine in the south, attracts many
visitors.
Franz Joseph Glacier on the Southern Island
The port at Auckland