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The islands were named after the Breton captain Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec, who visited the islands as part of the d'Entrecasteaux expedition in the 1790s. The topographic particle "Kermadec" is of Breton origin and is a lieu-dit in Pencran in Finistère where ker means village, residence and madec a proper name derived from mad (which means 'good') with the suffix -ec, used to form ...
The South Island is the second-most populated island, with over 1.18 million people, but is geographically larger than the North. New Zealand is situated on the boundary of the Pacific and Australian tectonic plates , making it one of the most active earthquake and volcanic regions in the world.