New Zealand

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MapLatitude:40

Longitude:175

4 Things You Should Know

Population:4,173,468

Total Area:103,738 sq. mile

Capital City: Wellington

Official Language: English, British, and Maori

Geography

* New Zealand lies about 1,000 miles southeast of Australia

Plants and Animals

• Reptiles frogs and bats

• Dogs, rats, red deer, opossum, and rabbits damage plants

• New Zealand symbol Kiwi

People and Culture

• Population may have reached as high as 20,000 before Europe people came

Flag

Continent

• New Zealand lives on Oceania

Land scope and ocean

• South Pacific ocean and Tasman

Economy

• New Zealand’s sheep population is at least 12 times its human population

HiStOrY

• New Zealand has good cooks. Sciencetist believe that Hawaki is the island of Tahiti

language

• English and major

Europe contact and settlement

• In 1840 the Maori and the British signed the treaty of Waitangi

New Zealand

Bibliography

The bibliography for this power point was written out and handed in to Ms. Olson separately.