EXPOSE MGN SARAH

PART1
NEW ZEALAND IS AN ISLAND SITUATED IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
OCEAN

It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —
and over 700 smaller islands
CAPITAL: Wellington
population of 5.123 millions
New Zealand is long and narrow—over 1,600 kilometres along its north-north-
east axis with a maximum width of 400 kilometres—with about 15,000 km
(9,300 mi) of coastline and a total land area of 268,000 square kilometres.

New Zealand has three official languages: English, Māori (from 1987) and New
Zealand Sign Language (from April 2006)70% are of European descent, 16.5%
are indigenous Māori, 15.1% Asian and 8.1% non-Māori Pacific Islanders.

Constitutional Monarchy
Prime minister:Chris Hawkins
King Charles III is the sovereign and head of state, while his prime minister
serves as the head of government. The New Zealand Parliament holds
legislative power and consists of the King and the House of Representatives.

Famous peoples: the All Blacks(Football team), Peter Jackson(producer-

screenwriter-director: made The Lord of the ring, The Hobbit, King kong)
PART2
The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by
humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the
islands and then developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch
explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New
Zealand.
Old name: AOTERAOA(in maori language)
Britains annexed New Zealand in 1840. Missionaries led the push, arguing that
the increasing numbers of whalers, traders and settlers, their sometimes
fractious relationship with Māori, and the possibility of French annexation all
demanded British action.
Explorers, seamen, whalers and gold-diggers were the first Scandinavians to
discover New Zealand - the furthest corner of the world. Some of them settled
permanently in the Colony, sometimes sending letters of invitation to their
compatriots to join them.