 GENERAL INFORMATION
Learn about New Zealand, the population, size, and in particular the main things you need to know if you are a first-time visitor to the country.
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 CLIMATE
New Zealand's climate is complex and varies from warm subtropical in the far north to cool temperate climates in the far south, with severe alpine conditions in the mountainous areas.
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 FLORA
The uniqueness of the New Zealand flora is a result of its separation from the rest of the world and many of the tree, plant and fern species found here are endemic.
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 FAUNA
It is quite surprising that New Zealand's only native land mammals are bats. Of the three species of bat only two now remain: the New Zealand long-tailed bat and the lesser short-tailed bat. Given this unique situation, birds, lizards and insects filled all the niches usually occupied by mammals elsewhere.
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 HISTORY
On a global scale New Zealand is a very young country. In Maori legend, the great explorer Kupe ventured across the Pacific Ocean in his waka hourua (voyaging canoe) from his ancestral Polynesian homeland of Hawaiki about 950AD.
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