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So, I’ve been doing my research on this new country I’m about to inhabit…

  • There
    are no snakes in

    New
    Zealand

  • There
    are 17 sheep to every 1 New Zealander
  • Native
    New Zealanders are called “kiwis”
  • Girl
    Power! In 1893

    New
    Zealand became the first country to
    give women the vote. New Zealand is also the only country in the world in which
    all the highest offices in the land have been occupied simultaneously by
    women: Queen Elizabeth II, Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright, Prime
    Minister Helen Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives Margaret
    Wilson and Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias were all in office between March
    2005 and August 2006.

 

  • Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu,
    a hill in the Hawke’s Bay region of the
    North Island,
    is credited by
    The Guinness Book of World Records with having the
    longest place name in the world.
  • The
    bat is the only non-marine native mammal
  • Cricket
    is regarded as

    New
    Zealand’s main summer sport. Netball is

    New Zealand’s
    most prominent women’s sport.

  • With
    2.5 million cars for four million people, including children,

    New Zealand’s
    car ownership rate is one of the world’s highest.

  • Edmund
    Hillary of
    New Zealand
    and Tenzing Norgay of
    Nepal
    were the first people to climb
    Mount Everest
    (1953).