New Zealand

Dear teacher, dear classmates. Today I´m going to tell you something about the beautiful
country New Zealand.

General informantion
New Zealand is an island in the southwestern of the Pacific Ocean.
The country is subdivided in the northern and the southern island and had round 700 little
islands.
The Maori people are the naitives of the country, they also called New Zealand
„Aotearoa“,which means „long white cloud“.
In New Zealand there are 4.445 million inhabitants. That is the half of Austria inhabitants.
The islands are 268 thousend km² large and they are three times larger than in Austria.
The main language is English, but they also speak Maori, that is the language of the native
inhabitants.The sign language is also an official language.
The capital city is Wellington, but Auckland is the biggest one:
The nationnal currency is the New Zealand Dollar.
The main religion is Christian.
The highest point of the islands is Mt. Cook with about 3700m high and the deepest one is
-5m, measured from the sea level.
The Goverment is a unitary parliamentary constitutian monarchy.
Elizabeth the second is the monarch and John Key is the prime menister.
On the left picture you see the parlament buiding, in the middle John Key and on the right
side Elisabeth the second.

Sport
Denis Hulme was the Formula 1 world champion in 1967.
Bruce McLaren was born in Auckland. He has founded the McLaren Formula 1 team.
Also football is an interesting sport for New Zealand.
Men and women are playing in the national team for the world cup.
A very famous player is Wynton Rufer, he played at Werder Bremen in the German
„Bundesliga“.
At the moment the national rugby team is the best in the world. They always wear black
clothes, so they are the „All Blacks“.
The roots of the sport are set incompetitions of the forestry workers in the woods of
Tasmania. The company „Stihl“ made professional competitions in USA in 1985. 2001
started by „Stihl Timberland Sports Series“ with a national championship. Jason Wynyard
from New Zealand won the world cup on seven times.

Economy
New Zealand lives only on food exports
Many farmers in New Zealand breed sheep, so there are more sheep than people in New
Zealand.In earlier days, this was only for the wool, these days also for the meat.
The cattle is also very important in New Zealand. Now they have about 5,3 mill. cows, 90%
of the dairy products get exported. So New Zealand is the biggest importer of them in the
world. Also with beef products is New Zealand world wide on the first position.There are
about 4 mill. on the island.
Fruits that originaly grow in New Zealand are macadamia nuts, blueberries, kiwis and
avocados. At the production of kiwis New Zealand was the world leader until 1980. Now it is
only on third position, because Italy and China increased the production.

Things you shoot know

Northern Island and Southern Island was together till the ice age. Now the 23 km wide Cook
street is between of them. The street is named after James Cook, who first found New
Zealand on his first journey in 1769 .
They only have 150 km of motorways.The whole road network is about 92 000 km long, but
only the half is asphalted and you have to drive on the LEFT side,like in Great Britain.
New Zealand has the most airports per capita. In the year 2002 they had 113 airports.
Auckland is the biggest one.
Importent days in New Zealand:
The sixth February is Waitangi Day.
The first monday in June is Queens Birthday.
Thefirst monday in October is Labour Day.
The twenty-fifth of December is Christmas Day.
The twenty-sixth of December is Boxing Day.
Now its very interesting: Is one of the two last days mentioned a saturday or Sunday, the day
will be celebrated on monday or tuesday.

Sights
All of the „Lord of the rings“ movies were filmed in New Zealand neary Wellington.
The films are one of the best who ever shooted in the world. They got 17 Oscars !
Most fans of „Lord of the rings“ still like the area where the movies got produced.
The Mount Cook, the highest mountain of New Zealand, is 3700m high.It is very common for
climbers and hikers.
With an area of 1.25 million hectares Fiordland National Park is the largest in New Zealand.
Wild animals like seals and dolphins, steep waterfalls and wild nature with rain forests as well
as a constantly changing climate make a trip unforgettable.
The Sky Tower in Auckland is an observation and telecommunications tower
It is 328 metres tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast, making it the
tallest man-made structure in the Southern Hemisphere. The upper portion of the tower
contains two restaurants and a cafe-including New Zealand's only revolving restaurant,
located 190 m from the ground. It is also liked by base jumpers.

Famous people
There are many famous people born in New Zealand like the actor Russell Crowe, which
was born in 1964 Wellington.
The opera singer Kiri te Kanawa was born in 1944 Gisborne, she is one of most famous
opera singer in the world.
The regisseur Peter Jackson was born in 1961 in Pukerua Bay. He is the producer of „Lord
of the rings“.
The climber Edmund Hillary which was the first guy climbing of the Mt. Everest was born in
1919 in Auckland.
Laura Dekker was born in 1995 in Whangurei,she is the youngest girl sailing round the world.

Thank you for your attention

I hope you enjoyed my presentation on New Zealand and your next holiday will be there.