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About New Zealand:
New Zealand... has a special claim to being different from any other land and indeed it is unique.
Geographically isolated from other land masses for at least 80 million years when it split from the ancient super-continent of Gondwanaland, New Zealand's flora and fauna have developed species that are entirely unique and found nowhere else. Ancient plant and animal species such as primitive pines, ferns, flowers, birds and reptiles evolved in isolation and the flightless kiwi and the tuatara can both trace their ancestry back to this long vanished world. Geologically, much of New Zealand is very young and being situated in a geologically unstable area there is still phenomena such as upward thrusting mountains and geothermal activity.
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New Zealand - a tiny island country of about 100,000 square miles way down in the South Pacific, a population of around 3.5 million people and a reputation of having one of the most pristine environments on the planet. These farthest flung islands were the world's last sizeable lands to be discovered and occupied. The first inhabitants were from Polynesia and the main wave of immigration took place some one thousand years ago. Legends tell of the early Polynesian navigators on their epic migration south to Aotearoa - Land of the Long White Cloud. Barely 200 years ago the Europeans arrived.
New Zealanders jokingly refer to this land as "Godzone" and are quietly proud of their country. This land has so many features which are not unique in themselves but being so close together are in this way different from those found anywhere else. It's coastlines and beaches, alps and glaciers, rivers, lakes and forests, green pastures and some of the most spectacular scenery in the world - a land of contrasts and one which has been described as "a pocket edition of the world". |
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