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New Zealand is located near the centre of the water hemisphere and is made up of two main islands and more than 700 smaller islands. [88] The two main islands (the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu) are separated by Cook Strait, 22 kilometres (14 mi) wide at its narrowest point. [89]
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, near the centre of the water hemisphere.It consists of a large number of islands, estimated around 700, mainly remnants of a larger landmass now beneath the sea.
The location of New Zealand on a globe. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to New Zealand: . New Zealand is an island country located in the western South Pacific Ocean comprising two large islands, the North Island and the South Island, and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island / Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. [1]
New Zealand consists of more than six hundred islands, mainly remnants of a larger land mass now beneath the sea. [1] New Zealand is the sixth-largest island country, and the third-largest located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. The following is a list of islands of New Zealand.
The Maungatautari Restoration Project is the largest ecological restoration project in New Zealand, located near Cambridge in the Waikato region in the central North Island of New Zealand. The project is engineered to remove all non-native pest mammals and predators and restore endangered native flora and fauna to Maungatautari.
Wellington [b] is the capital city of New Zealand.It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range.Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island), [c] and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region.
Christchurch (/ ˈ k r aɪ s. tʃ ɜːr tʃ / ⓘ; Māori: Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand. [a] Christchurch has an urban population of 415,100, and a metropolitan population of over half a million.
New Zealand and New Caledonia represent the visible part of a portion of continental crust, usually referred to as Zealandia.The rest of Zealandia includes the Challenger Plateau and Lord Howe Rise, which stretch from Northwest of New Zealand almost to Northern Australia, and the Campbell Plateau and Chatham Rise, to the southeast of New Zealand.