fantastic places: new Zealand

new Zealand

Location and Area

Located Zealand in the extreme southwest of the Pacific Ocean and to the south-east of Australia, and the area is estimated at about "270.500 km 2" and is made up of two main islands north and south, separated by Cook Strait and the sea coast of New Zealand Long extends for a distance of not less than "10,000 miles."

Surface

Surface is made of New Zealand from the coastal plains and areas of flat in the interior, especially the North Island and the volcanic mountains and the mountains in the North Island include volcanic peaks of Mount "Rabehu = 2.797" and mount "Taranaki = 3.518" and Mountains "Nawroho = 3.287" and Mountains "Tonqarero = 1.967 ". The mountains in the South Island Vti_kl in the Southern Alps affected by weather factors, a series of non-intermittent starting from the north of the island and ending in the south and includes 18 "summit" The height of each of them more than "300 meters" and the highest mountains is a mountain "Cook" which is called Maori name "Aoraki" and translated "piercing the clouds," and the snow and frigid water from the Alps transmitted by "360 River" ice to the main rivers in the island, which in turn feed into the sea on both sides of the island. Lakes abound in the country, especially in the south and will pass us on the trip.

Population

New Zealand is sparsely populated compared to global measurements where the population does not exceed the "3.9 million people" and now 85% of the population live in cities, and three-quarters of the population live in the North Island. And is considered one of every seven Uzlndean is of Maori descent, and while four fifths of them due to the descent European descent - the majority of "Britain" and "the Netherlands, Germany and the former Yugoslavia and Greece" and other countries such as China.

Before about a thousand years settled country folk came from the Pacific Islands, and who used Star Ki draw lines Mlaanhm in search of a new land, these people are the "Maori Maori" "Altanecata and Anioa Tangata Whenua" and translated literally means "people of the land", and when they saw the hills covered jungle and above the thick fog which they called "Oateroa Aotearoa" literally translated "the land of the long white cloud."

European explorers arrived to this land in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and they were eager to exploit the enormous wealth available to them. In the year 1840, signed a heads of agreement Maori people provided them with protection by the British Queen and ensured them of their rights preserved in the land, forests and fisheries, as a result of this important agreement dubbed Treaty "Waitangi Waitangi". It is worth mentioning that the high proportion of women in New Zealand, especially in recent years as a result of labor migration, especially from Ireland and some European countries.

Transportation

In New Zealand there are three international airports in each of the "Auckland - Wellington - Krajistchirh" Auckland Airport is the main international gateway and used by most international airlines known. As regards seaports in New Zealand there are five international ports in each of the "Auckland - Wellington - Christchurch - Dunedin - Tauranga".

For internal transport prices are significantly higher, especially taxi and it is due to high fuel prices. So the population uses public transport and tourists dramatically. So I would advise those who have the ability to hire a private car driving from one of the world as Budget, for example, to travel and enjoy whatever he wants and at a price much cheaper than spent by the bus, train or airline or taxis expensive. And that's what I did in most of my movements there, where hired a private car and drive them myself .. so it requires you to be a driver's license or international driving license translated in English. Also used the bus sometimes and so few .. and hydroplane for picnics over the short Lakes.

Education and standard of living

Concerned with the state attaches great importance to education until they put it in place so high that it spends a high percentage of government spending. The rising standard of living in general ... they even recorded some cities in New Zealand the best standards of living in the world, due to the small number of people and the interest of the government to raise wages and fight unemployment and pay the minimum standard of living for the unemployed .. This was reflected in the rise in prices significantly.

Service the tourist and visitor to New Zealand i-site

The state established centers Special Service for tourist and visitor and resident bears the name of (i-site) is a center Free offers everything you need tourist information, maps, books, pamphlets all what he wants in any city and any sporting activity or entertainment or tourist gratis ... Add to Search and booking service for accommodation, accommodation and transportation of all kinds in every city and village ... with appropriate pricing and payment have cut ticket otherwise

Site

There are New Zealand in the south-west of the Indian Ocean, in the south-east of Australia, they are followers of the southern half of the earth like that of Australia

Discovered

Discovered the islands of New Zealand in the period contemporary to discover Australia, Vakchwha Tasman Dutch in his year 1642 AH -1052 AD, and then confirmed this disclosure James Cook, the British a century later, and then crawled to British colonialism, and when he arrived the British were the inhabitants of these islands of Alpaulinarien, descended them Maori population of south-east Asia and make up 9% of the population of New Zealand. After the dominance of British colonialism on the islands of New Zealand many number of European immigrants to the British and became the largest share of the population of New Zealand

Earth

Land Islands New Zealand share the attributes terrain Valmertfat mediated islands big, and know the mountains of the South Island mountains of the Southern Alps, and consists of mountain ranges comprising seventeen mountain approaching the height of each of the three thousand meters, and most of the mountains of North Island volcanic upbringing and surrounding plains Balmertvaat in the two islands, stretching these plains near the coast, has Tothert Heights glacial erosion islands.

Climate

The climate of New Zealand belongs to the kind of moderate island, but different climatic conditions from one place to another depending on the location and the system of terrain, Section north of the North Island, a peninsula Auckland, belongs to the pattern of the Mediterranean climate, and the rest of the islands belong to the kind of moderate cold and almost Alamtar fall most of the year, the increase in rain-speaking West and less over the eastern plains.

Human activity:

Fortunes of New Zealand from natural plant rich in forests, in the North Forest suborbital, and there beech forests and oak and pine, this addition to the wealth of herbal cover large areas, and there Bnioseland areas suitable for agriculture is that Alnyuelandaan care graze more than agriculture, however, it yields Zealand wheat and barley and corn, and the number of cattle herds 8 million, the number of sheep and 68.7 million