New zealand random information?

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johno

Good luck! But, if you don't get anything meaningful from the answerers here, I suggest you try the Te Ara website. It is a very comprehensive information source for all things New Zealand. More appropriately for you, it has a section called 'New Zealand in Brief'. The sections within it are brief and to the point.

The link is below.

Meziena

Maui is the superhero in many Maori legends. The South island is his Waka (canoe) the Stuart island is his anchor; and the North island is the giant fish he pulled up from the sea.

There are 11 times more sheep in NZ than people.

"Kia ora" literally means "have life" in Maori. But we use it for hi and sometimes goodbye.

One in 5 Kiwis are born overseas, in a different country.

The Maori were the first people to use trench warfare. They were outnumbered and out-weaponed by the British, but won many battles by outsmarting them. So the British had to lie to the press back home to feel better!

NZ has 3 climate zones - desert, rainforest and alpine.

There were actually many Treaty of Waitangis put around the country and the translations into Maori were bad too, so we have some problems today in interpreting it. It was supposed to grant equal rights but was forgotten about for a long time and a lot eaten by rats.

Missionaries were the ones who developed the written Maori language.

A "hangi" is a traditional meal of meat, potatoes, kumara and other vegetables cooked under the ground to produce a strong flavour.

The Maori were said to have come to NZ in 7 waka, from a mythical land called Hawaiki. There were Mori Ori in the Chatham islands, before the Maori but no one is sure why they disappered.

kate

I know the Maoris have their own radio station in their own language and their tattoos state their family history, the male is the head of the family and female are subservient

Laura

Well, first there was the Maori Auries (this is spelt wrong sorry), then the Maoris came apparently from taiwan, and ate them all...
Then white people came from Britain and cheated the Maoris out of their land via the treaty of waitangi, which now is being used as a way of maoris to get scholarships and beaches... even though there isn't a full blooded maori left.

The other name for New Zealand is Aotearoa, which is Maori for land of the long white cloud.

It is a relatively new country, and has a clean green image, even though in reality its statistics are really bad with pollution and stuff.

New Zealand also has a female prime minister, Helen Clark, and was the first country to allow women to vote.

-runs out of breath-
hope that helped.

onelazyhori

wow there are some really good answers and some pretty stupid ones

the moriori (maori auri) wre another maori tribe not a seperate people.

women were not subserviant (esp in my tribe)

maori origins have been traced all over the pacific, their art having heavy chineese influence, mythology very pacific and north american

we almost won the americas cup in 1987

we've only won the world cup once (in rugby) in 1987

anti-nuclear policy means that the anyone can bring nuclear devices into our country and waters

we do not have the highest sheep to person ratio, that is held by australia

there are more samoans living in auckland than in samoa

there are more maoris living in australia than in the north island

our national anthem was written by an australian

black and white are not our official colours

until recently only maori was the national language (in law)

although new zealand gave women the vote, it took atleast another five years before the chinese were allowed

according to international law, the treaties that were written in maori should be the valid one, not the ones written in english

um... and these arent really interesting :(

n s

here's a few sites you can check:

www.fourcorners.co.nz/new-zeal...

www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/sci...

www.emigratenz.org/ReallyAndTr...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zeal...

www.chemistry.co.nz/new_zealan...

www.virtualoceania.net/newzeal...

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fac...

nz.com/nz/

www.tourism.net.nz/new-zealand...

www.investmentnz.govt.nz/secti...

Hope they help. Good luck!

watzzzup

Never forget there were plenty of people in what is called New Zealand before europe arrived on the scene, stole the best land, abused the people, adversely affected the culture, created a wicked economy (trade and labor) and tried to convert the people to christianity for their own purposes.

You can not really discover an occupied land - can you?

That is like someone discovering the car parked in your driveway - call it theft and call the police.

wtg_ib

they like sheep a LOT

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