New Zealand (Māori : Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa] ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean . It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui ) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu )—and over 700 smaller islands . It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south of the islands of New Caledonia , Fiji , and Tonga . The country's varied topography and sharp mountain peaks, including the Southern Alps , owe much to tectonic uplift and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington , and its most populous city is Auckland .
A developed country , it was the first to introduce a minimum wage , and the first to give women the right to vote . It ranks very highly in international measures of quality of life , human rights , and it has one of the lowest levels of perceived corruption in the world. It retains visible levels of inequality , having structural disparities between its Māori and European populations. New Zealand underwent major economic changes during the 1980s, which transformed it from a protectionist to a liberalised free-trade economy. The service sector dominates the national economy , followed by the industrial sector, and agriculture ; international tourism is also a significant source of revenue. New Zealand is a member of the United Nations , Commonwealth of Nations , ANZUS , UKUSA , OECD , ASEAN Plus Six , Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation , the Pacific Community and the Pacific Islands Forum . It enjoys particularly close relations with the United States and is one of its major non-NATO allies ; the United Kingdom ; Samoa , Fiji , and Tonga ; and with Australia , with a shared "Trans-Tasman " identity between the two countries stemming from centuries of British colonisation. (Full article... )
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Evermore: (left to right) Peter Hume, Jon Hume, Dann Hume
Freiburg, Germany , November 2009
Evermore were a rock band formed in Feilding , New Zealand, in 1999, made up of three brothers Jon (guitar, vocals), Peter (keyboards, bass guitar, vocals) and Dann Hume (drums, guitar, vocals). The band was based in Sydney from 2004 to 2007 and then Melbourne until they became inactive in 2014. Evermore released four studio albums: Dreams (2004), Real Life (2006), Truth of the World: Welcome to the Show (2009), and Follow the Sun (2012), as well as a self-titled compilation album (2010). Real Life and Truth of the World were their highest charting studio albums in New Zealand and Australia, while Dreams and Real Life received platinum certifications from Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).
Evermore's most successful singles were "
Running ", "
Light Surrounding You " (both 2006) and "
Hey Boys and Girls (Truth of the World pt.2) " (2009) – "Light Surrounding You" peaked at number one in Australia. They were nominated for seven
ARIA Music Awards and won two
New Zealand Music Awards . The group's members won an
APRA Silver Scroll song writing award and the
Channel V Oz Artist of the Year Award. Evermore have not performed publicly since late 2014 and each of the members has undertaken a solo career. (
Full article... )
The following are images from various New Zealand-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Central Plateau in winter (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 2 The Forty-Fours viewed from the north; the leftmost islet is the easternmost point of New Zealand. (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 4 A Māori ancestor (
tekoteko ) depicted in a wood carving at the Tamatekapua Meeting House in
Ohinemutu (
c. 1880 ) (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 6 "First Scottish Colony for New Zealand" – 1839 poster advertising emigration from Scotland to New Zealand. Collection of
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , Glasgow, Scotland. (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 7 An annotated relief map (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 8 Rural landscape close to Mt Ruapehu (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 9 Cook Island dancers at Auckland's
Pasifika Festival , 2010 (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 11 Topography of
Zealandia , the submerged continent, and the two tectonic plates (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 13 Vigil in
Wellington for the victims of the Christchurch mosques attacks (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 14 New Zealand is
antipodal to points of the North Atlantic, the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco.
Image 16 Michael Joseph Savage , Labour Prime Minister 1935–1940. This portrait was hung on the walls of many supporters. (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 17 Pavlova , a popular New Zealand dessert, garnished with cream and strawberries. (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 18 The
kiwi has become a New Zealand icon. (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 19 Kapa haka is performed at a
School Strike for Climate in Christchurch 2019. (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 21 Richard Seddon, Liberal Prime Minister from 1893 to his death in 1906 (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 22 Men of the
Māori Battalion , New Zealand Expeditionary Force, after disembarking at Gourock in Scotland in June 1940 (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 23 Scottish Highland family migrating to New Zealand, 1844, by
William Allsworth .
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa , Wellington. (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 25 HMS North Star destroying Pomare's Pā during the Northern/Flagstaff War, 1845, Painting by John Williams. (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 27 Māori
whānau (extended family) from
Rotorua in the 1880s. Many aspects of Western life and culture, including European clothing and architecture, became incorporated into Māori society during the 19th century. (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 28 Water pollution sign on the
Waimakariri River (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 29 Tekoteko from the gable of a
wharenui ,
Te Arawa (20th century) (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 30 Percentages of people reporting affiliation with Christianity at the 2001, 2006 and 2013 censuses; there has been a steady decrease over twelve years. (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 31 Lorde as part of the 2014
Lollapalooza lineup (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 32 An aerial view of the
Auckland urban area, showing its location on the
Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 33 The
Mission House at Kerikeri is New Zealand's oldest surviving building, having been completed in 1822 (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 34 Elizabeth II and Muldoon's Cabinet, taken during the Queen's 1981 visit to New Zealand (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 35 New Zealand Division in 1916 (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 36 One of the few extant copies of the
Treaty of Waitangi (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 37 The
1935 Labour Cabinet . Michael Joseph Savage is seated in the front row, centre. (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 38 The Waikato River flowing out of Lake Taupō (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 39 The scalloped bays indenting Lake Taupō's northern and western coasts are typical of large volcanic
caldera margins. The caldera they surround was formed during the huge
Oruanui eruption . (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 40 Roger Douglas , the architect of New Zealand's 1980s
neo-liberal reform programme (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 41 Tribute to the Suffragettes memorial in
Christchurch adjacent to
Our City . The figures shown from left to right are
Amey Daldy ,
Kate Sheppard ,
Ada Wells and
Harriet Morison (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 42 The Māori are most likely descended from people who emigrated from
Taiwan to
Melanesia and then travelled east through to the
Society Islands . After a pause of 70 to 265 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand.
Image 44 Strong winds in the Cook Strait produce high waves which erode the shore, as shown in this image (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 45 Knox Church , a
Presbyterian church , in
Dunedin . The city was founded by Scottish Presbyterian settlers. (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 46 Children's and young adult author
Margaret Mahy , July 2011 (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 47 Putting down a hāngī (earth oven) (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 48 The first
Government House in Auckland, as painted by
Edward Ashworth in 1842 or 1843. Auckland was the second
capital of New Zealand . (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 49 Hinepare of Ngāti Kahungunu, is wearing a traditional
korowai cloak adorned with a black fringe border. The two
huia feathers in her hair, indicate a chiefly lineage. She also wears a
pounamu hei-tiki and earring, as well as a shark tooth (
mako ) earring. The
moko-kauae (chin-tattoo) is often based on one's role in the
iwi . (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 50 Scorching Bay , Wellington, in summer (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 51 A meeting of European and Māori inhabitants of
Hawke's Bay Province . Engraving, 1863.
Image 52 European settlers developed an identity that was influenced by their rustic lifestyle. In this scene from 1909, men at their camp site display a catch of rabbits and fish. (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Image 53 A 1943 poster produced during the war. The poster reads: "When war broke out ... industries were unprepared for munitions production. To-day New Zealand is not only manufacturing many kinds of munitions for her own defence but is making a valuable contribution to the defence of the other areas in the Pacific..." (from
History of New Zealand )
Image 54 Fiordland is dominated by steep, glacier-carved valleys. (from
Geography of New Zealand )
Image 55 A beach
barbecue – an established part of New Zealand culture (from
Culture of New Zealand )
Pavlova is a
meringue dessert named after the
ballet dancer,
Anna Pavlova . It is crispy on the outside but light and fluffy inside.
Some sources say the recipe originated in New Zealand, while others claim it was invented in Australia. However, like the Anzac biscuit , the earliest known books containing the recipe were published in New Zealand.
Professor Helen Leach, a culinary anthropologist at Otago University in New Zealand found a pavlova recipe in a 1933 Rangiora Mothers' Union cookery book. Professor Leach also has an even earlier copy of the pavlova recipe from a 1929 rural New Zealand magazine.
Keith Money, a biographer of Anna Pavlova , wrote that a chef at a hotel in Wellington , New Zealand, created the dish when Pavlova visited there in 1926 on her world tour.
The claim that it was an Australian invention states that the pavlova is based on a cake baked by Bert Sachse at the Esplanade Hotel in Perth on 3 October 1935. Sachse's descendants believe he may have come up with the recipe earlier than that, since Anna Pavlova visited Australia in 1926 and 1929 and died in 1931. (Full article... )
Beach at New Brighton, New Zealand
... that 14 months after taking up track cycling, René Heyde only narrowly missed out being selected to the New Zealand team at the 1972 Summer Olympics ?
... that the New Zealand Geographic Board initially rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin?
... that the Auckland meteorite crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand?
... that a third of the MPs elected in the 2023 New Zealand election were new to Parliament, including Carlos Cheung , Grant McCallum , Suze Redmayne , Dana Kirkpatrick , Ryan Hamilton , James Meager , Greg Fleming , Vanessa Weenink , Mike Butterick , Katie Nimon , David MacLeod , Miles Anderson , Carl Bates , Rima Nakhle , Nancy Lu , Cushla Tangaere-Manuel , Reuben Davidson , Scott Willis , Darleen Tana , Takutai Moana Kemp , Kahurangi Carter , Todd Stephenson , Laura Trask , Cameron Luxton , Tākuta Ferris , Mariameno Kapa-Kingi , Casey Costello , Jamie Arbuckle , and Tanya Unkovich ?
... that one threatened species of plant endemic to the North Island of New Zealand is colloquially known as a forget-me-not ?
... that the support of conservationist Kae Miller for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington , New Zealand?
... that a hut on New Zealand's Copland Track had to be moved after being hit by a mudslide just 13 weeks after opening?
... that although it was a centennial project, the Canterbury Pioneer Women's Memorial in New Zealand was opened 90 years after the region's organised settlement began?
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