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Aoraki / Mount Cook [a] is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014 [update] , is listed as 3,724 metres (12,218 feet). [ 2 ] It is situated in the Southern Alps , the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island .
Kiwifruit or kiwi is a major horticultural export earner for New Zealand. New Zealand developed the first commercially viable kiwifruit and developed export markets, creating the demand for the fruit that exists today. Today New Zealand is the third largest kiwifruit producing country, next to China and Italy, [1] and holds approximately 30% of ...
Before the 2023 census, Mount Cook Village had a larger boundary, covering 9.68 km 2 (3.74 sq mi). [1] Using that boundary, Mount Cook Village had a population of 213 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 12 people (6.0%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 3 people (1.4%) since the 2006 census. There were 27 households ...
In 1977, New Zealand agronomists from Zespri International transported A. chinensis seeds from China to the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, where green kiwifruit had been cultivated for years. After a selection process, in 1992 a selection was obtained that had yellow flesh and sweet pulp.
Conservationists confirmed the discovery of two wild-born kiwi chicks in the area of Wellington, New Zealand, for the first time in 150 years.
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is a national park located in the Canterbury Region in the central-west of the South Island of New Zealand. It was established in October 1953 and takes its name from the highest mountain in New Zealand, Aoraki / Mount Cook .
The North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli; Apteryx australis or Apteryx bulleri [5] as before 2000, still used in some sources) is a species of kiwi that is widespread in the northern two-thirds of the North Island of New Zealand and, with about 35,000 remaining, [2] it is the most common kiwi species. The eggs laid by the North Island ...
Their birth in Makara, a suburb just 25 minutes from Wellington’s city center, takes the local total to 65 North Island brown kiwi. The brown kiwi is one of New Zealand’s most common kiwi ...