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708 relations: ABC-Clio, Abel Tasman, Accent (sociolinguistics), Adventure travel, Advice (constitutional law), African New Zealanders, Agricultural subsidy, Agriculture in New Zealand, Alan MacDiarmid, Alexandra, New Zealand, Alfred Domett, Allopatric speciation, Alpine Fault, America's Cup, An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, Anglicisation, Anglosphere, Angolan Civil War, Antarctica New Zealand, ANZUS, Aoraki / Mount Cook, Aotearoa, Aotearoa Music Awards, Archaeology of New Zealand, Archibald McIndoe, ASEAN, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Asia–Pacific, Asian New Zealanders, Associated state, Association football, Atoll, Auckland, Auckland Airport, Auckland City Council, Auckland One Rail, Auckland Region, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland University Press, Australasia, Australasia at the Olympics, Australia, Australia (continent), Australia–New Zealand relations, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, Australian English, Australian Government, Australian Society for Sports History, Avatar (2009 film), ... Expand index (658 more) »
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ABC-Clio
ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.
Abel Tasman
Abel Janszoon Tasman (160310 October 1659) was a Dutch seafarer and explorer, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
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Accent (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual.
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Adventure travel
Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion.
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Advice (constitutional law)
In a parliamentary system, advice is a formal and usually binding instruction given by one constitutional officer of state to another.
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African New Zealanders
New Zealanders of African descent represent less than 0.3% of New Zealand's population, although the number has been growing substantially since the 1990s.
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Agricultural subsidy
An agricultural subsidy (also called an agricultural incentive) is a government incentive paid to agribusinesses, agricultural organizations and farms to supplement their income, manage the supply of agricultural commodities, and influence the cost and supply of such commodities.
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Agriculture in New Zealand
In New Zealand, agriculture is the largest sector of the tradable economy.
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Alan MacDiarmid
Alan Graham MacDiarmid, ONZ FRS (14 April 1927 – 7 February 2007) was a New Zealand-born American chemist, and one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000.
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Alexandra, New Zealand
Alexandra (Māori: Manuherikia or Areketanara) is a town in the Central Otago district of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Alfred Domett
Alfred Domett (20 May 18112 November 1887) was the fourth premier of New Zealand, a close friend of the poet Robert Browning and author of the epic poem Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea Day Dream.
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Allopatric speciation
Allopatric speciation – also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become geographically isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with gene flow.
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Alpine Fault
The Alpine Fault is a geological fault that runs almost the entire length of New Zealand's South Island, being about.
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America's Cup
The America's Cup is a sailing competition and the oldest international competition still operating in any sport.
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An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand is an official encyclopaedia about New Zealand, published in three volumes by the New Zealand Government in 1966.
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Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, formerly the Church of the Province of New Zealand, is a province of the Anglican Communion serving New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and the Cook Islands.
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Anglicisation
Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.
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Anglosphere
The Anglosphere is the Anglo-American sphere of influence, with a core group of nations that today maintain close political, diplomatic and military co-operation.
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Angolan Civil War
The Angolan Civil War (Guerra Civil Angolana) was a civil war in Angola, beginning in 1975 and continuing, with interludes, until 2002.
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Antarctica New Zealand
Antarctica New Zealand is an Institute set up by the Government of New Zealand in 1996 to manage its interests in Antarctica and the Ross Sea.
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ANZUS
The Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty (ANZUS or ANZUS Treaty) is a 1951 collective security agreement initially formed as a trilateral agreement between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States; and from 1986 an agreement between New Zealand and Australia, and separately, Australia and the United States, to co-operate on military matters in the Pacific Ocean region, although today the treaty is taken to relate to conflicts worldwide.
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand.
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Aotearoa
Aotearoa is the Māori-language name for New Zealand.
Aotearoa Music Awards
The Aotearoa Music Awards (previously called the New Zealand Music Awards), conferred annually by Recorded Music NZ, honour outstanding artistic and technical achievements in the recording industry.
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Archaeology of New Zealand
New Zealand's archaeology started in the early 1800s and was largely conducted by amateurs with little regard for meticulous study.
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Archibald McIndoe
Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe (4 May 1900 – 11 April 1960) was a New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
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ASEAN
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, commonly abbreviated as ASEAN, is a political and economic union of 10 states in Southeast Asia.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
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Asia–Pacific
The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean.
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Asian New Zealanders
Asian New Zealanders are New Zealanders of Asian ancestry (including naturalised New Zealanders who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants).
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Associated state
An associated state is the minor partner or dependent territory in a formal, free relationship between a political territory (some of them dependent states, most of them fully sovereign) and a major party—usually a larger nation.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atoll
An atoll is a ring-shaped island, including a coral rim that encircles a lagoon.
Auckland
Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.
Auckland Airport
Auckland Airport is an international airport serving Auckland, the most populous city of New Zealand.
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Auckland City Council
Auckland City Council was the local government authority for Auckland City, New Zealand, from 1871 to 1 November 2010, when it and Auckland's six other city and district councils were amalgamated to form the Auckland Council.
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Auckland One Rail
Auckland One Rail is a train operator that commenced operating services under contract to Auckland Transport in January 2022.
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Auckland Region
Auckland is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, which takes its name from the eponymous urban area.
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Auckland University of Technology
Auckland University of Technology (AUT; Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makau Rau) is a university in New Zealand, formed on 1 January 2000 when a former technical college (originally established in 1895) was granted university status.
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Auckland University Press
Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience.
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Australasia
Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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Australasia at the Olympics
Australasia was a combined team of athletes from Australia and the Dominion of New Zealand that competed together at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. New Zealand and Australia are countries in Australasia, countries in Oceania, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, member states of the United Nations and OECD members.
Australia (continent)
The continent of Australia, sometimes known in technical contexts by the names Sahul, Australia-New Guinea, Australinea, Oceania, or Meganesia to distinguish it from the country of Australia, is located within the Southern and Eastern hemispheres.
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Australia–New Zealand relations
Foreign relations between neighbouring countries Australia and New Zealand, also referred to as Trans-Tasman relations, are extremely close.
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Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was originally a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.
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Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia.
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Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
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Australian Society for Sports History
Australian Society for Sports History (ASSH) was formed in July 1983.
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Avatar (2009 film)
Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.
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Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin baccalaureus) or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin baccalaureatus) is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years (depending on institution and academic discipline).
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Battle of Crete
The Battle of Crete (Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, Μάχη της Κρήτης), codenamed Operation Mercury (Unternehmen Merkur), was a major Axis airborne and amphibious operation during World War II to capture the island of Crete.
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Battle of Monte Cassino
The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome, was a series of four military assaults by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II.
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Bay of Islands
The Bay of Islands is an area on the east coast of the Far North District of the North Island of New Zealand.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Beatrice Tinsley
Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (27 January 1941 – 23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die.
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Bill (law)
A bill is a proposal for a new law, or a proposal to significantly change an existing law.
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Bill of Rights 1689
The Bill of Rights 1689 (sometimes known as the Bill of Rights 1688) is an Act of the Parliament of England that set out certain basic civil rights and clarified who would be next to inherit the Crown.
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Bill Pickering (rocket scientist)
William Hayward Pickering (24 December 1910 – 15 March 2004) was a New Zealand-born aerospace engineer who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976.
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Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.
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Birds of New Zealand
The birds of New Zealand evolved into an avifauna that included many endemic species found in no other country.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.
Bosnian War
The Bosnian War (Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started on 6 April 1992, following a number of earlier violent incidents.
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Bougainville campaign
The Bougainville campaign was a series of land and naval battles of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Allied forces and the Empire of Japan, named after the island of Bougainville.
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Boy (2010 film)
Boy is a 2010 New Zealand comedy-drama film, written and directed by Taika Waititi.
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Brass band
A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting primarily of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.
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Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
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Buddhism in New Zealand
Buddhism is New Zealand's third-largest religion after Christianity and Hinduism standing at 1.5% of the population of New Zealand.
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Cabinet collective responsibility
Cabinet collective responsibility, also known as collective ministerial responsibility, is a constitutional convention in parliamentary systems and a cornerstone of the Westminster system system of government, that members of the cabinet must publicly support all governmental decisions made in Cabinet, even if they do not privately agree with them.
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Cabinet Manual (New Zealand)
The Cabinet Manual (previously the Cabinet Office Manual until 2001) is a government document in New Zealand which outlines the main laws, rules and constitutional conventions affecting the operation of the New Zealand Government.
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Cabinet of New Zealand
The Cabinet of New Zealand (Te Rūnanga o te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa)Translated as: "The Rūnanga (literally 'Council') of the Government of New Zealand" is the New Zealand Government's body of senior ministers, accountable to the New Zealand Parliament.
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Caldera
A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
The Cambodian–Vietnamese War was an armed conflict between Democratic Kampuchea, controlled by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.
Canister shot
Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel artillery ammunition.
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Canterbury Region
Canterbury (Waitaha) is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island.
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Capital of New Zealand
Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865.
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Cartography
Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps.
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Catholic Church in New Zealand
The Catholic Church in New Zealand (Te Hāhi Katorika ki Aotearoa) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope in Rome, assisted by the Roman Curia, and with the New Zealand bishops.
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Cawthron Institute
The Cawthron Institute is New Zealand's largest independent science organisation, specialising in science that supports the environment and development within primary industries.
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Center of population
In demographics, the center of population (or population center) of a region is a geographical point that describes a centerpoint of the region's population.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Central Otago
Central Otago is an area located in the inland part of the Otago region in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Cerebrovascular disease
Cerebrovascular disease includes a variety of medical conditions that affect the blood vessels of the brain and the cerebral circulation.
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Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.
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Charles de Thierry
Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry (April 1793 – 8 July 1864) was a nineteenth-century adventurer who attempted to establish his own sovereign state in New Zealand in the years before the Treaty of Waitangi between the British Crown and the Maori chiefs in 1840.
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Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg
Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg PC FRS (26 October 1778 – 23 April 1866) was a Scottish politician and colonial administrator who served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.
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Charles III
Charles III (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is King of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms.
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Chatham Island
Chatham Island (Moriori: Rēkohu, 'Misty Sun'; Wharekauri) is the largest island of the Chatham Islands group, in the south Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island.
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Chatham Islands
The Chatham Islands (Moriori: Rēkohu, 'Misty Sun'; Wharekauri) are an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean about east of New Zealand's South Island, administered as part of New Zealand, and consisting of about 10 islands within an approximate radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island (''Rangiauria''). New Zealand and Chatham Islands are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean and Zealandia.
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Chatham Standard Time Zone
The Chatham Standard Time Zone is a time zone twelve hours and forty-five minutes ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) resulting in UTC+12:45.
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Chief Justice of New Zealand
The chief justice of New Zealand (Te Kaiwhakawā Tumuaki o Aotearoa) is the head of the New Zealand judiciary, and presides over the Supreme Court of New Zealand.
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Child poverty in New Zealand
New Zealand suffers from one of the highest rates of child poverty in the Western world.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. New Zealand and China are member states of the United Nations.
Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
Chorus Limited
Chorus is a provider of telecommunications infrastructure throughout New Zealand.
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Christchurch
Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland.
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Christchurch Airport
Christchurch Airport is the main airport that serves Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Christianity in New Zealand
Christianity in New Zealand dates to the arrival of missionaries from the Church Missionary Society who were welcomed onto the beach at Rangihoua Bay in December 1814.
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Christopher Luxon
Christopher Mark Luxon (born 19 July 1970) is a New Zealand politician and former business executive who has been serving as the 42nd prime minister of New Zealand since 2023, previously as leader of the Opposition from 2021 to 2023, and as leader of the National Party since 2021.
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Cindy Kiro
Dame Alcyion Cynthia Kiro (Simpson; born 1958) is a New Zealand public-health academic, administrator, and advocate, who has been serving as the 22nd governor-general of New Zealand since 21 October 2021.
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City of Literature
UNESCO's City of Literature programme is part of the wider Creative Cities Network.
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City quality of life indices
City quality of life indices are lists of cities that are ranked according to a defined measure of living conditions.
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Closer Economic Relations
The Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement, commonly known as Closer Economic Relations (CER), is a free trade agreement between Australia and New Zealand.
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Clutha River
The Clutha River (officially gazetted as Clutha River /) is the second longest river in New Zealand and the longest in the South Island.
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Coalition government
A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive.
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Cold wave
A cold wave (known in some regions as a cold snap, cold spell or Arctic Snap) is a weather phenomenon that is distinguished by a cooling of the air.
Colonial Office
The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created in 1768 from the Southern Department to deal with colonial affairs in North America (particularly the Thirteen Colonies, as well as, the Canadian territories recently won from France), until merged into the new Home Office in 1782.
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Colony of New South Wales
The Colony of New South Wales was a colony of the British Empire from 1788 to 1901, when it became a State of the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Colony of New Zealand
The Colony of New Zealand was a colony of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that encompassed the islands of New Zealand which was proclaimed by its British settler population in 1841, and which lasted until 1907.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Commonwealth realm
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth that has Charles III as its monarch and ceremonial head of state.
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Confidence and supply
In parliamentary democracies based on the Westminster system, confidence and supply is an arrangement under which a minority government (one which does not control a majority in the legislature) receives the support of one or more parties or independent MPs on confidence votes and the state budget ("supply").
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Constitution Act 1986
The Constitution Act 1986 is an Act of the New Zealand Parliament that forms a major part of the constitution of New Zealand.
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Constitution of New Zealand
The constitution of New Zealand is the sum of laws and principles that determine the political governance of New Zealand.
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Constitutional monarchy
Constitutional monarchy, also known as limited monarchy, parliamentary monarchy or democratic monarchy, is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in making decisions.
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Contact Energy
Contact Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator, a wholesaler of natural gas, and a retailer of electricity, natural gas, broadband and LPG.
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Continent
A continent is any of several large geographical regions.
Continental collision
In geology, continental collision is a phenomenon of plate tectonics that occurs at convergent boundaries.
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Continental fragment
Continental crustal fragments, partly synonymous with microcontinents, are pieces of continents that have broken off from main continental masses to form distinct islands that are often several hundred kilometers from their place of origin.
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Convention (political norm)
A convention (also known as a constitutional convention) is an informal and uncodified tradition that is followed by the institutions of a state.
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Cook Islands
The Cook Islands (Rarotongan: Kūki ‘Airani; Kūki Airani) is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand and Cook Islands are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean, countries in Oceania, countries in Polynesia and island countries.
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Cook Islands dollar
The Cook Islands dollar was the former currency of the Cook Islands, which now uses the New Zealand dollar, although some physical cash issued for the Cook Islands dollar remains in use.
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Cook Strait
Cook Strait (Te Moana-o-Raukawa) is a strait that separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand.
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Coronary artery disease
Coronary artery disease (CAD), also called coronary heart disease (CHD), ischemic heart disease (IHD), myocardial ischemia, or simply heart disease, involves the reduction of blood flow to the cardiac muscle due to build-up of atherosclerotic plaque in the arteries of the heart.
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Corruption in New Zealand
This article discusses the responsibilities of the various agencies involved in combating corruption in New Zealand.
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Corruption Perceptions Index
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index that scores and ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, as assessed by experts and business executives.
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Country music
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.
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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices are annual publications on the human rights conditions in countries and regions outside the United States, mandated by U.S. law to be submitted annually by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State to the United States Congress.
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Court of Appeal of New Zealand
The Court of Appeal of New Zealand (Te Kōti Pīra o Aotearoa) is the principal intermediate appellate court of New Zealand.
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COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Crown colony
A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire.
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Crown entity
A Crown entity (from the Commonwealth term Crown) is an organisation that forms part of New Zealand's state sector established under the Crown Entities Act 2004, a unique umbrella governance and accountability statute.
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Crown Research Institute
In New Zealand, Crown Research Institutes (CRIs) are corporatised Crown entities charged with conducting scientific research.
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Cultural assimilation
Cultural assimilation is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group or assimilates the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another group whether fully or partially.
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Cultural identity
Cultural identity is a part of a person's identity, or their self-conception and self-perception, and is related to nationality, ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, locality, gender, or any kind of social group that has its own distinct culture.
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Culture of Asia
The culture of Asia encompasses the collective and diverse customs and traditions of art, architecture, music, literature, lifestyle, philosophy, food, politics and religion that have been practiced and maintained by the numerous ethnic groups of the continent of Asia since prehistory.
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Culture of Australia
The culture of Australia is primarily a Western culture, originally derived from the United Kingdom.
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Culture of Europe
The culture of Europe is diverse, and rooted in its art, architecture, traditions, cuisines, music, folklore, embroidery, film, literature, economics, philosophy and religious customs.
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Culture of New Zealand
The culture of New Zealand is a synthesis of indigenous Māori, colonial British, and other cultural influences.
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Culture of the United States
The culture of the United States of America, also referred to as American culture, encompasses various social behaviors, institutions, and norms in the United States, including forms of speech, literature, music, visual arts, performing arts, food, sports, religion, law, technology as well as other customs, beliefs, and forms of knowledge.
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Cycling in New Zealand
Cycling in New Zealand is the 5th most popular form of active recreation (9% cycled in the last week), but a very marginal commuting mode, with the share hovering around 1–3% in most major cities.
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Cyprus problem
The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, Cyprus dispute, or Cyprus question, is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot community which runs the Republic of Cyprus (de facto only comprising the south of the island since the events of 1974) and the Turkish Cypriot community in the north of the island, where troops of the Republic of Turkey are deployed.
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D'Urville Island
D'Urville Island, Māori name Rangitoto ki te Tonga, is the largest island in the Marlborough Sounds, on the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Dairy farming in New Zealand
Dairy farming in New Zealand began during the early days of colonisation by Europeans.
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Dalmatia
Dalmatia (Dalmacija; Dalmazia; see names in other languages) is one of the four historical regions of Croatia, alongside Central Croatia, Slavonia, and Istria, located on the east shore of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia.
Date and time notation in Australia
The date and time in Australia are most commonly recorded using the day–month–year format and the 12-hour clock, although 24-hour time is used in some cases.
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De facto
De facto describes practices that exist in reality, regardless of whether they are officially recognized by laws or other formal norms.
Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand
The Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand (He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni), signed by a number of Māori chiefs in 1835, proclaimed the sovereign independence of New Zealand prior to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
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Declaration of war
A declaration of war is a formal act by which one state announces existing or impending war activity against another.
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Deforestation in New Zealand
Deforestation in New Zealand has been a contentious environmental issue in the past, but native forests (colloquially called "the bush") now have legal protection, and are not allowed to be tampered with by humans.
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Demonym
A demonym or gentilic is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place.
Department of Conservation (New Zealand)
The Department of Conservation (DOC; Māori: Te Papa Atawhai) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the conservation of New Zealand's natural and historical heritage.
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Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is the department of the Australian federal government responsible for foreign policy and relations, international aid (using the branding Australian Aid), consular services and trade and investment (including trade and investment promotion Austrade).
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Department of Labour (New Zealand)
The Department of Labour (Te Tari Mahi) was a New Zealand public sector organisation tasked with improving the performance of the labour market and, through this, strengthening the economy and increasing the standard of living.
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Dependent territory
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (DNZB) is an encyclopedia or biographical dictionary containing biographies of over 3,000 deceased New Zealanders.
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Districts of New Zealand
A district in New Zealand is a territorial authority area governed by a district council as a second-tier of local government in New Zealand, below regional councils.
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Dominion of New Zealand
The Dominion of New Zealand was the historical successor to the Colony of New Zealand. New Zealand and Dominion of New Zealand are states and territories established in 1907.
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Dredge oyster
The dredge oyster, Bluff oyster or Chilean oyster (Ostrea chilensis), is also known in Chile as ostra verde, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Ostreidae.
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Drift to the north
Drift to the north is a term used in New Zealand to refer to the internal migration of people from the South Island to the country's main metropolitan area, Auckland, in the North Island.
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Dunedin (ship)
The Dunedin (1874–90) was the first ship to successfully transport a full cargo of refrigerated meat from New Zealand to England.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
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East Asia Summit
The East Asia Summit (EAS) is a regional forum held annually by leaders of, initially, 16 countries in the East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian and Oceanian regions, based on the ASEAN Plus Six mechanism.
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Economic depression
An economic depression is a period of carried long-term economic downturn that is the result of lowered economic activity in one major or more national economies.
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Economic inequality in New Zealand
Economic inequality in New Zealand is one of the social issues present in the country.
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Economic liberalization
Economic liberalization, or economic liberalisation, is the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entities.
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Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports.
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Economy of New Zealand
The economy of New Zealand is a highly developed free-market economy.
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Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press is a scholarly publisher of academic books and journals, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.
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Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
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Elections in New Zealand
New Zealand is a representative democracy in which members of the unicameral New Zealand Parliament gain their seats through elections.
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Electoral Commission (New Zealand)
The Electoral Commission (Te Kaitiaki Take Kōwhiri) is an independent Crown entity set up by the New Zealand Parliament.
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Electricity sector in New Zealand
The electricity sector in New Zealand uses mainly renewable energy, such as hydropower, geothermal power and increasingly wind energy.
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Elsevier
Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.
Emerging power
An emerging power or rising power is a sovereign state or union of states with significant rising influence in global affairs.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Energy in New Zealand
Despite abundant natural resources and a relatively small population, New Zealand is a net importer of energy, in the form of petroleum products.
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Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.
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Ethnic groups in the Middle East
Ethnic groups in the Middle East are ethnolinguistic groupings in the "transcontinental" region that is commonly a geopolitical term designating the intercontinental region comprising West Asia (including Cyprus) without the South Caucasus, and also comprising Egypt in North Africa.
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Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) refers to viewing the West as the center of world events or superior to all other cultures.
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European Economic Community
The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, as renamed by the Lisbon Treaty.
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European New Zealanders
New Zealanders of European descent are mostly of British and Irish ancestry, with significantly smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Germans, Poles, French, Dutch, Croats and other South Slavs, Greeks, and Scandinavians.
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European settlers in New Zealand
European settlers in New Zealand, also known locally as Pākehā settlers, began arriving in the country in the early 19th century as immigrants of various types, initially settling around the Bay of Islands mostly.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Exclusive economic zone of New Zealand
New Zealand's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers at least, which is approximately 15 times the land area of the country.
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Extreme sport
Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death.
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Fauna
Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.
Fiber to the x
Fiber to the x (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications.
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Fiji
Fiji (Viti,; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand and Fiji are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean, countries and territories where English is an official language, countries in Oceania, island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
Film producer
A film producer is a person who oversees film production.
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Fiordland
Fiordland ("The Pit of Tattooing") is a geographical region of New Zealand in the south-western corner of the South Island, comprising the westernmost third of Southland.
First Labour Government of New Zealand
The First Labour Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand from 1935 to 1949.
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First-past-the-post voting
First-preference plurality (FPP)—often shortened simply to plurality—is a single-winner system of positional voting where voters mark one candidate as their favorite, and the candidate with the largest number of points (a '''''plurality''''' of points) is elected.
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Five Eyes
The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an anglosphere intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Five Power Defence Arrangements
The Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) are a series of bilateral defence relationships established by a series of multi-lateral agreements between Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, and the United Kingdom, all of which are Commonwealth members that once belonged to the British Empire.
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Flightless bird
Flightless birds have, through evolution, lost the ability to fly.
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Flora
Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.
Fonterra
Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational publicly traded dairy co-operative owned by New Zealand farmers.
Foveaux Strait
Foveaux Strait is a strait that separates Stewart Island from the South Island of New Zealand.
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Frederick Warne & Co.
Frederick Warne & Co. is a British publisher founded in 1865.
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Free trade
Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports.
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Freedom House
Freedom House is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
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Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Fur seal
Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae.
Gallipoli campaign
The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
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Genesis Energy Limited
Genesis Energy Limited, formerly Genesis Power Limited is a New Zealand publicly listed electricity generation and electricity, natural gas and LPG retailing company.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Geography of New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, near the centre of the water hemisphere.
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Geothermal power in New Zealand
Geothermal power in New Zealand plays a significant part of the energy generation capacity of the country, constituting 25% of the total energy supply and 19% of electricity production in 2021.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe. New Zealand and Germany are member states of the United Nations and OECD members.
Global Innovation Index
The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
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GNS Science
GNS Science (Te Pū Ao), officially registered as the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited, is a New Zealand Crown Research Institute.
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God Defend New Zealand
"God Defend New Zealand" (meaning 'New Zealand') is one of two national anthems of New Zealand, the other being "God Save the King".
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God Save the King
"God Save the King" (alternatively "God Save the Queen" when the British monarch is female) is the national anthem of the United Kingdom and the royal anthem of each of the British Crown Dependencies, one of two national anthems of New Zealand, and the royal anthem of most Commonwealth realms.
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Golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit a ball into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
Governor-General of New Zealand
The governor-general of New Zealand (Te kāwana tianara o Aotearoa) is the representative of the monarch of New Zealand, currently King Charles III.
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Great Barrier Island
Great Barrier Island (Aotea) lies in the outer Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand, north-east of central Auckland.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Haast's eagle
Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei) is an extinct species of eagle that lived in the South Island of New Zealand, commonly accepted to be the pouākai of Māori mythology.
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Haka in sports
Haka, traditional dances of the Māori people, have been used in sports in New Zealand and overseas.
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Hamilton's frog
The Hamilton's frog (Leiopelma hamiltoni) is a primitive frog native to New Zealand, one of only three extant species belonging to the family Leiopelmatidae.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Hauraki Gulf
The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana is a coastal feature of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Hawaiian kinship
Hawaiian kinship, also referred to as the generational system, is a kinship terminology system used to define family within languages.
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Hawaiki
In Polynesian mythology, Hawaiki (also rendered as Avaiki in Cook Islands Māori, Savaii in Samoan, Havaii in Tahitian, Hawaii in Hawaiian) is the original home of the Polynesians, before dispersal across Polynesia.
Hāngī
Hāngī is a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven, called an umu.
Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona of a sovereign state.
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Healthcare in New Zealand
The healthcare system of New Zealand has undergone significant changes throughout the past several decades.
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Heavenly Creatures
Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand biographical film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his partner, Fran Walsh.
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Hei-tiki
The hei-tiki is an ornamental pendant of the Māori of New Zealand.
Heinemann (publisher)
William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London-based publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann.
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Hendrik Brouwer
Hendrik Brouwer (1581 – 7 August 1643) was a Dutch explorer and governor of the Dutch East Indies.
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High Court of New Zealand
The High Court of New Zealand (Te Kōti Matua o Aotearoa) is the superior court of New Zealand.
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Hiking in New Zealand
Tramping, known elsewhere as backpacking, rambling, hill walking or bushwalking, is a popular activity in New Zealand.
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Hikurangi Trench
The Hikurangi Trench, also called the Hikurangi Trough, is an oceanic trench in the bed of the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, lying between the southern end of the Cook Strait and the Chatham Rise. New Zealand and Hikurangi Trench are Zealandia.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
Hinduism in New Zealand
Hinduism is the second largest religion in New Zealand.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
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History of whaling
This article discusses the history of whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.
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Hokitika
Hokitika is a town in the West Coast region of New Zealand's South Island, south of Greymouth, and close to the mouth of the Hokitika River.
Human capital flight
Human capital flight is the emigration or immigration of individuals who have received advanced training at home.
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Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Human rights commission
A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights.
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Human rights in New Zealand
Human rights in New Zealand are addressed in the various documents which make up the constitution of the country.
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a 2016 New Zealand adventure comedy-drama film written and directed by Taika Waititi, whose screenplay was based on the book Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump.
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HVDC Inter-Island
The HVDC Inter-Island link is a long, 1200 MW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system connecting the electricity networks of the North Island and South Island of New Zealand together.
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Hydroelectric power in New Zealand
Hydroelectric power in New Zealand has been a part of the country's energy system for over 100 years and continues to provide more than half of the country's electricity needs.
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Immigration to New Zealand
Migration to New Zealand began only very recently in human history, with Polynesian settlement in New Zealand, previously uninhabited, about 1250 CE to 1280 CE.
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Imperial Conference
Imperial Conferences (Colonial Conferences before 1907) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in 1944.
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Independence of New Zealand
The independence of New Zealand is a matter of continued academic and social debate.
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Index of Economic Freedom
The Index of Economic Freedom is an annual index and ranking created in 1995 by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal to measure the degree of economic freedom in the world's nations.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia. New Zealand and India are countries and territories where English is an official language, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Indo-Australian Plate
The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and the surrounding ocean and extends north-west to include the Indian subcontinent and the adjacent waters.
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Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1894
The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1894 was a piece of industrial relations legislation passed by the Parliament of New Zealand in 1894.
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Innovation
Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.
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Interislander
Interislander is a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island.
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International Futures
International Futures (IFs) is a global integrated assessment model designed to help with thinking strategically and systematically about key global systems (economic, demographic, education, health, environment, technology, domestic governance, infrastructure, agriculture, energy and environment).
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International rankings of New Zealand
This is a list of New Zealand's international rankings on a range of social, economic and other criteria.
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International student
International students or exchange students, also known as foreign students, are students who undertake all or part of their secondary or tertiary education in a country other than their own.
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International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)French: Union Internationale des Télécommunications is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies.
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Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.
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Irreligion in New Zealand
Irreligion in New Zealand refers to atheism, agnosticism, deism, religious scepticism and secular humanism in New Zealand society.
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Isla de los Estados
Isla de los Estados (English: Staten Island, from the Dutch Stateneiland; Chuainisin in the Yamana language, meaning "land of abundance"; Jaiwesen in the Haush language, meaning "region of cold"; and Kéoin-harri in the Selknam language, meaning "mountain range of the roots") is an Argentine island that lies off the eastern extremity of Tierra del Fuego, from which it is separated by the Le Maire Strait.
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Islam in New Zealand
Islam is the third-largest religion in New Zealand (1.3%) after Christianity (37.3%) and Hinduism (2.7%).
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Island country
An island country, island state, or island nation is a country whose primary territory consists of one or more islands or parts of islands. New Zealand and island country are island countries.
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Island restoration
The ecological restoration of islands, or island restoration, is the application of the principles of ecological restoration to islands and island groups.
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Italians
Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.
Iwi
Iwi are the largest social units in New Zealand Māori society.
Jacob Le Maire
Jacob Le Maire (c. 1585 – 22 December 1616) was a Dutch mariner who circumnavigated the Earth in 1615 and 1616.
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James Busby
James Busby (7 February 1802 – 15 July 1871) was the British Resident in New Zealand from 1833 to 1840.
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James Cook
Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree of accuracy.
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Judicial independence
Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary should be independent from the other branches of government.
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Judiciary of New Zealand
The judiciary of New Zealand is responsible for the system of courts that interprets and applies the laws of New Zealand.
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Jus soli
Jus soli, meaning 'right of the soil', is the right of anyone born in the territory of a state to nationality or citizenship, also commonly referred to as birthright citizenship in some Anglophone countries, is a rule defining a person's nationality based on their birth in the territory of the country.
Kaikōura orogeny
The Kaikōura Orogeny is a New Zealand orogeny that has given birth to the Southern Alps.
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Kapa haka
Kapa haka is the term for Māori action songs and the groups who perform them.
Kauri gum
Kauri gum is resin from kauri trees (Agathis australis), which historically had several important industrial uses.
Kawhia Harbour
Kawhia Harbour (Kāwhia) is one of three large natural inlets in the Tasman Sea coast of the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kākāpō
The kākāpō (kākāpō; Strigops habroptila), sometimes known as the owl parrot or owl-faced parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea.
Kermadec Islands
The Kermadec Islands (Rangitāhua) are a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga. New Zealand and Kermadec Islands are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean.
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Kermadec Trench
The Kermadec Trench is a linear ocean trench in the south Pacific Ocean. New Zealand and Kermadec Trench are Zealandia.
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King Kong (2005 film)
King Kong is a 2005 epic adventure monster film co-written, produced, and directed by Peter Jackson.
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Kiwi (bird)
Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes.
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Kiwi (nickname)
"Kiwi" is a common self-reference used by New Zealanders, though it is also used internationally.
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Kiwiana
Kiwiana are certain items and icons from New Zealand's heritage, especially from around the middle of the 20th century, that are seen as representing iconic New Zealand elements.
Kiwifruit
Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside New Zealand and Australia) or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia.
KiwiRail
KiwiRail Holdings Limited is a New Zealand state-owned enterprise (SOE) responsible for rail operations in New Zealand and operates inter-island ferries.
Kupe
Kupe was a legendary Polynesian explorer who, according to Māori oral history, was the first person to discover New Zealand.
Lake Taupō
Lake Taupō (also spelled Taupo; Taupō-nui-a-Tia or) is a large crater lake in New Zealand's North Island, located in the caldera of Taupō Volcano.
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Lamb and mutton
Sheep meat is one of the most common meats around the world, taken from the domestic sheep, Ovis aries, and generally divided into lamb, from sheep in their first year, hogget, from sheep in their second, and mutton, from older sheep.
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Land and water hemispheres
The land hemisphere and water hemisphere are the hemispheres of Earth containing the largest possible total areas of land and ocean, respectively.
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Languages of New Zealand
English is the predominant language and a de facto official language of New Zealand.
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Latin Americans
Latin Americans (Latinoamericanos; Latino-americanos) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America).
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Legislature
A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the legal authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country, nation or city.
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Leiopelma
Leiopelma is a genus of New Zealand primitive frogs, belonging to the suborder Archaeobatrachia.
Levin, New Zealand
Levin (Taitoko) is the largest town and seat of the Horowhenua District, in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand's North Island.
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LGBT rights in New Zealand
New Zealand lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights are some of the most extensive in the world.
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Liberal Government of New Zealand
The Liberal Government of New Zealand was the first responsible government in New Zealand politics organised along party lines.
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List of airports in New Zealand
This is a list of airports in New Zealand, sorted by location.
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List of dual place names in New Zealand
Some official place names in New Zealand are dual names, usually incorporating both the Māori place name and the original name given by European settlers or explorers.
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List of earthquakes in New Zealand
This is a list of large earthquakes that have occurred in New Zealand.
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List of fiords of New Zealand
The fiords of New Zealand (tai matapari "bluff sea") are all located in the southwest of the South Island, in a mountainous area known as Fiordland.
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List of former territorial authorities in New Zealand
This is a list of former territorial authorities in New Zealand.
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List of geckos of New Zealand
Dozens of species of gecko are found in New Zealand.
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List of island countries
This is a list of island countries. New Zealand and list of island countries are island countries.
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List of islands in the Pacific Ocean
The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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List of islands of New Zealand
New Zealand consists of more than six hundred islands, mainly remnants of a larger land mass now beneath the sea.
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List of New Zealand films
This is a list of feature films and pre-1910 short films produced or filmed in New Zealand, ordered by the year of release.
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List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
This is a list of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years Before Present (about 9700 BCE) and continues to the present day.
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List of political parties in New Zealand
New Zealand politics have featured a strong party system since the early 20th century.
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Literary modernism
Modernist literature originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is characterised by a self-conscious separation from traditional ways of writing in both poetry and prose fiction writing.
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Livestock Improvement Corporation
Livestock Improvement Corporation, or LIC, is a New Zealand multinational farmer-owned co-operative which, for more than 100 years, has provided genetics expertise, information and technology to the dairy sector, aimed at improving the prosperity and productivity of farmers.
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Living fossil
A living fossil is an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record.
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Local government in New Zealand
New Zealand has a unitary system of government in which the authority of the central government defines sub-national entities.
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Loxene Golden Disc
The Loxene Golden Disc was an annual New Zealand music award which ran from 1965 to 1972.
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Mackenzie Basin
The Mackenzie Basin, popularly and traditionally known as the Mackenzie Country, is an elliptical intermontane basin located in the Mackenzie and Waitaki Districts, near the centre of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics is a branch of economics that deals with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole.
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Major non-NATO ally
A major non-NATO ally (MNNA) is a designation given by the United States government to countries that have strategic working relationships with the U.S. Armed Forces while not being members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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Malayan Emergency
The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti-British National Liberation War was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth.
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Manapouri Power Station
Manapōuri Power Station is an underground hydroelectric power station on the western arm of Lake Manapouri in Fiordland National Park, in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Manawatū-Whanganui
Manawatū-Whanganui (spelled Manawatu-Wanganui prior to 2019) is a region in the lower half of the North Island of New Zealand, whose main population centres are the cities of Palmerston North and Whanganui.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Market economy
A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
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Marlborough Sounds
The Marlborough Sounds (te reo Māori: Te Tauihu-o-te-Waka) are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand.
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Marshall Cavendish
Marshall Cavendish is a subsidiary company of Times Publishing Group, the printing and publishing subsidiary of Singapore-based conglomerate Fraser and Neave (which in turn currently owned by ThaiBev, a Thai beverage company), and at present is a publisher of books, business directories and magazines.
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Maurice Wilkins
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins (15 December 1916 – 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction.
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Maximum and minimum
In mathematical analysis, the maximum and minimum of a function are, respectively, the largest and smallest value taken by the function.
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Māori culture
Māori culture is the customs, cultural practices, and beliefs of the Māori people of New Zealand.
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Māori electorates
In New Zealand politics, Māori electorates, colloquially known as the Māori seats (Ngā tūru Māori), are a special category of electorate that give reserved positions to representatives of Māori in the New Zealand Parliament.
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Māori language
Māori, or te reo Māori ('the Māori language'), commonly shortened to te reo, is an Eastern Polynesian language and the language of the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand.
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Māori migration canoes
Māori oral histories recount how their ancestors set out from their homeland in waka hourua, large twin-hulled ocean-going canoes (waka).
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Māori people
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).
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Māori protest movement
The Māori protest movement is a broad indigenous rights movement in New Zealand (Aotearoa).
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Māui (Māori mythology)
In Māori mythology, as in other Polynesian traditions, Māui is a culture hero and a trickster, famous for his exploits and cleverness.
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McGill–Queen's University Press
The McGill–Queen's University Press (MQUP) is a Canadian university press formed as a joint venture between McGill University in Montreal, Quebec and Queen's University at Kingston in Kingston, Ontario.
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Megafauna
In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.
Mercer (consulting firm)
Mercer is an American consulting firm founded in 1945.
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Mercury Energy
Mercury NZ Limited is a New Zealand electricity generation and multi-product utility retailer of electricity, gas, broadband and mobile telephone services.
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Meridian Energy
Meridian Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generator and retailer.
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Methuen Publishing
Methuen Publishing Ltd (also known as Methuen Books) is an English publishing house.
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Michael Joseph Savage
Michael Joseph Savage (23 March 1872 – 27 March 1940) was an Australian-born New Zealand politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of New Zealand, heading the First Labour Government from 1935 until his death in 1940.
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Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and iPadOS.
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Mid central vowel
The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Middle power
A middle power is a state that is not a superpower or a great power, but still exerts influence and plays a significant role in international relations.
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Military history of New Zealand
The military history of New Zealand is an aspect of the history of New Zealand that spans several hundred years.
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Military history of New Zealand during World War I
The military history of New Zealand during World War I began in August 1914.
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Military history of New Zealand during World War II
The military history of New Zealand during World War II began when New Zealand entered the Second World War by declaring war on Nazi Germany with the United Kingdom in 1939, and expanded to the Pacific War when New Zealand declared war on Imperial Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
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Minimum wage
A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor.
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Minister of Justice (New Zealand)
The Minister of Justice is a minister in the New Zealand Government.
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Ministers in the New Zealand Government
Ministers (nga minita) in the New Zealand Government are members of Parliament (MPs) who hold ministerial warrants from the Crown to perform certain functions of government.
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Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) is the department of the New Zealand Government responsible for supporting the arts, culture, built heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors in New Zealand and advising government on such.
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Ministry for the Environment (New Zealand)
The Ministry for the Environment (MfE; Māori: Manatū Mō Te Taiao) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the New Zealand Government on policies and issues affecting the environment, in addition to the relevant environmental laws and standards.
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Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (in Māori, Te Manatu Ahuwhenua, Ngāherehere) was a state sector organisation of New Zealand which dealt with matters relating to agriculture, forestry and biosecurity.
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Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE; Hīkina Whakatutuki) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with "delivering policy, services, advice and regulation" which contribute to New Zealand's economic productivity and business growth.
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Ministry of Economic Development (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Economic Development (Manatū Ōhanga) was a New Zealand public sector organisation tasked with promoting development of New Zealand's economy.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) (Māori: Manatū Aorere) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on foreign and trade policy, and promoting New Zealand's interests in trade and international relations.
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Ministry of Justice (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Justice (Te Tāhū o te Ture) is an executive department of the New Zealand Government, responsible for supporting the judiciary and the administration of justice within New Zealand.
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Ministry of Social Development (New Zealand)
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD; Māori: Te Manatū Whakahiato Ora) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the New Zealand Government on social policy, and providing social services.
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Minority government
A minority government, minority cabinet, minority administration, or a minority parliament is a government and cabinet formed in a parliamentary system when a political party or coalition of parties does not have a majority of overall seats in the legislature.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Mixed-member proportional representation
Mixed-member proportional representation (MMP or MMPR) is a mixed electoral system which combines local majoritarian elections with a compensatory tier of party list votes, which are used to allocate additional members in a way that aims to produce proportional representation overall.
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Moa
Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand.
Monarchy of New Zealand
The monarchy of New Zealand is the constitutional system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of New Zealand.
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Moriori
The Moriori are the first settlers of the Chatham Islands (Rēkohu in Moriori; Wharekauri in Māori).
Mount Ruapehu
Mount Ruapehu is an active stratovolcano at the southern end of the Taupō Volcanic Zone and North Island volcanic plateau in New Zealand.
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Mount Tarawera
Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera.
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Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour.
Musket Wars
The Musket Wars were a series of as many as 3,000 battles and raids fought throughout New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands) among Māori between 1806 and 1845, after Māori first obtained muskets and then engaged in an intertribal arms race in order to gain territory or seek revenge for past defeats.
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National anthems of New Zealand
New Zealand is one of only two countries in the world—the other being Denmark—with two official national anthems of equal status.
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National identity
National identity is a person's identity or sense of belonging to one or more states or one or more nations.
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National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research or NIWA (Taihoro Nukurangi), is a Crown Research Institute of New Zealand.
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National Review
National Review is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.
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National security
National security, or national defence (national defense in American English), is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government.
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National sport
A national sport is a physical activity or sport that is culturally significant or deeply embedded in a nation, serving as a national symbol and an intrinsic element to a nation's identity and culture.
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National symbols of New Zealand
National symbols of New Zealand are used to represent what is unique about the nation, reflecting different aspects of its cultural life and history.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin in; others, throughout.
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players.
New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Nouvelle-Calédonie) is a ''sui generis'' collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about east of Australia, and from Metropolitan France. New Zealand and New Caledonia are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean, island countries and Zealandia.
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New Zealand and the United Nations
New Zealand is a founding member of the United Nations, having taken part in the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco.
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New Zealand Army
The New Zealand Army (Ngāti Tūmatauenga, "Tribe of the God of War") is the principal land warfare force of New Zealand, a component of the New Zealand Defence Force alongside the Royal New Zealand Navy and the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
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New Zealand at the Olympics
New Zealand first sent an independent team to the Olympics in 1920.
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New Zealand Company
The New Zealand Company, chartered in the United Kingdom, was a company that existed in the first half of the 19th century on a business model that was focused on the systematic colonisation of New Zealand.
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New Zealand Constitution Act 1852
The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 (15 & 16 Vict. c. 72) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that granted self-government to the Colony of New Zealand.
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New Zealand cuisine
The cuisine of New Zealand is largely driven by local ingredients and seasonal variations.
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New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF; Te Ope Kātua o Aotearoa, "Line of Defence of New Zealand") is the three-branched military of New Zealand.
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New Zealand dollar
The New Zealand dollar (tāra o Aotearoa; sign: $; code: NZD) is the official currency and legal tender of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, the Ross Dependency, Tokelau, and a British territory, the Pitcairn Islands.
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New Zealand electorates
An electorate or electoral district (rohe pōti) is a geographic constituency used for electing a member to the New Zealand Parliament.
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New Zealand English
New Zealand English (NZE) is the variant of the English language spoken and written by most English-speaking New Zealanders.
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New Zealand Film Commission
The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC; Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga) is a New Zealand government agency formed to assist with creating and promoting New Zealand films.
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New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy
The New Zealand foreshore and seabed controversy is a debate in the politics of New Zealand.
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New Zealand Geographic Board
The New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa (NZGB) has authority over geographical and hydrographic names within New Zealand and its territorial waters.
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New Zealand Government
The New Zealand Government (Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa) is the central government through which political authority is exercised in New Zealand.
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New Zealand greater short-tailed bat
The New Zealand greater short-tailed bat (Mystacina robusta) is one of two species of New Zealand short-tailed bats, a family (Mystacinidae) unique to New Zealand.
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New Zealand House of Representatives
The House of Representatives (lit) is the sole chamber of the New Zealand Parliament.
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New Zealand in the Korean War
The involvement of New Zealand in the Korean War began in 1950 as a response to the United Nations Security Council's call for combat assistance in the erupting Korean War.
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New Zealand in the Vietnam War
New Zealand's involvement in the Vietnam War was controversial, sparking widespread protest at home from anti-Vietnam War movements modelled on their American counterparts.
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New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party, also known simply as Labour (Reipa), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand.
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New Zealand land confiscations
The New Zealand land confiscations took place during the 1860s to punish the Kīngitanga movement for attempting to set up an alternative, Māori, form of government that forbade the selling of land to European settlers.
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New Zealand Legislative Council
The New Zealand Legislative Council (lit) was the upper house of the General Assembly of New Zealand between 1853 and 1951.
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New Zealand Liberal Party
The New Zealand Liberal Party (Pāti Rīpera) was the first organised political party in New Zealand.
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New Zealand men's national softball team
The New Zealand men's national softball team (nicknamed the Black Sox/Black Socks) is the national softball team for New Zealand.
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New Zealand national cricket team
The New Zealand national cricket team represents New Zealand in men's international cricket.
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New Zealand national netball team
The New Zealand national netball team, commonly known as the Silver Ferns (Rau Hiriwā), represent Netball New Zealand in international netball tournaments such as the Netball World Cup, the Commonwealth Games, the Taini Jamison Trophy, the Constellation Cup, the Netball Quad Series and the Fast5 Netball World Series.
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New Zealand National Party
The New Zealand National Party (Rōpū Nāhinara o Aotearoa), shortened to National (Nāhinara) or the Nats, is a centre-right to right-wing New Zealand political party that is the current ruling party.
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New Zealand national rugby league team
The New Zealand national rugby league team (tīma rīki motu Aotearoa) has represented New Zealand in rugby league since 1907.
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New Zealand national rugby union team
The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks, represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport.
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New Zealand nationality law
New Zealand nationality law details the conditions by which a person is a national of New Zealand.
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New Zealand nuclear-free zone
In 1984, Prime Minister David Lange banned nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from using New Zealand ports or entering New Zealand waters.
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New Zealand Parliament
The New Zealand Parliament (Pāremata Aotearoa) is the unicameral legislature of New Zealand, consisting of the Sovereign (King-in-Parliament) and the New Zealand House of Representatives.
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New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
The New Zealand Plant Conservation Network (NZPCN) is a non-governmental organisation devoted to the protection and restoration of New Zealand's indigenous plant life, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts and lichens.
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New Zealand Post Office
The New Zealand Post Office (NZPO) was a government department of New Zealand until 1987.
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA; Mana Tohu Mātauranga o Aotearoa) is the New Zealand government Crown entity tasked with administering educational assessment and qualifications.
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New Zealand Sign Language
New Zealand Sign Language or NZSL (te reo Turi) is the main language of the deaf community in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Space Agency
The New Zealand Space Agency is an agency within the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) charged with "space policy, regulation and business development" relating to space activities in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Wars
The New Zealand Wars (Ngā pakanga o Aotearoa) took place from 1845 to 1872 between the New Zealand colonial government and allied Māori on one side, and Māori and Māori-allied settlers on the other.
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New Zealand wine
New Zealand wine is produced in several of its distinct winegrowing regions.
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New Zealand–China Free Trade Agreement
The New Zealand–China Free Trade Agreement is a bilateral free trade agreement signed between the People's Republic of China and New Zealand in April 2008.
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New Zealand–United States relations
According to the U.S. State Department, relations between New Zealand and the United States as of August 2011 are "the best they have been in decades." New Zealand is a major non-NATO ally of the United States.
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New Zealanders
New Zealanders (Tāngata Aotearoa) are people associated with New Zealand, sharing a common history, culture, and language (New Zealand English).
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Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri
Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri is a Māori iwi (tribe) of New Zealand, who arrived on the Kurahaupō waka.
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Niue
Niue (Niuē) is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand. New Zealand and Niue are countries in Oceania, countries in Polynesia and island countries.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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North Island
The North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui, 'the fish of Māui', officially North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui or historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait.
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North Island Volcanic Plateau
The North Island Volcanic Plateau (often called the Central Plateau and occasionally the Waimarino Plateau) is a volcanic plateau covering much of central North Island of New Zealand with volcanoes, lava plateaus, and crater lakes.
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Northland Peninsula
The Northland Peninsula, called the North Auckland Peninsula in earlier times, is in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand.
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Nothofagus
Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.
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NZ On Screen
NZ On Screen is a state-funded online promotional showcase of New Zealand television and film.
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NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA), superseded by is a New Zealand Crown entity tasked with promoting safe and functional transport by land, including the responsibility for driver and vehicle licensing, and administering the New Zealand state highway network.
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Oceania
Oceania is a geographical region including Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Oceanic climate
An oceanic climate, also known as a marine climate or maritime climate, is the temperate climate sub-type in Köppen classification represented as Cfb, typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, generally featuring cool to warm summers and cool to mild winters (for their latitude), with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature.
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Ochre
Ochre, iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand.
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
OECD Better Life Index
The OECD Better Life Index, created in May 2011 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, is an initiative pioneering the development of economic indicators which better capture multiple dimensions of economic and social progress.
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Office of Treaty Settlements
The Office of Treaty Settlements (in Māori: Te Tari Whakatau Take e pa ana ki te Tiriti o Waitangi) was an office within the New Zealand Ministry of Justice tasked with negotiating settlements due to historical breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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Official New Zealand Music Chart
The Official New Zealand Music Chart (Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa) is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).
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Once Were Warriors (film)
Once Were Warriors is a 1994 New Zealand tragic drama film based on New Zealand author Alan Duff's bestselling 1990 first novel.
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Operation Astute
Operation Astute was an Australian-led military deployment to East Timor to quell unrest and return stability in the 2006 East Timor crisis.
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Otago
Otago (Ōtākou) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council.
Outline of New Zealand
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to New Zealand: New Zealand is an island country located in the western South Pacific Ocean comprising two large islands, the North Island and the South Island, and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island / Rakiura and the Chatham Islands.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pacific Community
The Pacific Community (PC), formerly the South Pacific Commission (SPC), is an international development organisation governed by 27 members, including 22 Pacific island countries and territories around the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Islands Forum
The Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) is an inter-governmental organization that aims to enhance cooperation among countries and territories of Oceania, including formation of a trade bloc and regional peacekeeping operations.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Pacific Plate
The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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Pacific Rim
The Pacific Rim comprises the lands around the rim of the Pacific Ocean.
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Paphies australis
Paphies australis or pipi (from the Māori language) is a bivalve mollusc of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand.
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Paranephrops
Paranephrops is a genus of freshwater crayfish found only in New Zealand.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.
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Parliamentary Counsel Office (New Zealand)
The Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO; Māori: Te Tari Tohutohu Pāremata) is New Zealand's law drafting office.
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Parliamentary leader
A parliamentary leader is a political title or a descriptive term used in various countries to designate the person leading a parliamentary group or caucus in a legislative body, whether it be a national or sub-national legislature.
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Parliamentary sovereignty
Parliamentary sovereignty, also called parliamentary supremacy or legislative supremacy, is a concept in the constitutional law of some parliamentary democracies.
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Parliamentary system
A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
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Pasifika Festival
The Pasifika Festival is a festival celebrating Pasifika New Zealanders and their pan-cultural identity, held annually in Western Springs Reserve, Auckland.
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Pasifika New Zealanders
Pasifika New Zealanders (also called Pacific Peoples) are a pan-ethnic group of New Zealanders associated with, and descended from, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands (also known as Pacific Islanders) outside of New Zealand itself.
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Pavlova (dessert)
Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert.
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Pākehā
Pākehā (or Pakeha) is a Māori-language word used in English, particularly in New Zealand.
Pāua
Pāua is the Māori name given to three New Zealand species of large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs which belong to the family Haliotidae (in which there is only one genus, Haliotis).
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.
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Phormium
Phormium is a genus of two plant species in the family Asphodelaceae.
Physical abuse
Physical abuse is any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact.
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Picton, New Zealand
Picton (Waitohi) is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island.
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Pipe band
A pipe band is a musical ensemble consisting of pipers and drummers.
Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands (Pitkern: Pitkern Ailen), officially Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. New Zealand and Pitcairn Islands are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean and island countries.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago.
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Podocarpaceae
Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs.
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Political Geography (journal)
Political Geography is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier covering all aspects of political geography.
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Polynesia
Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, made up of more than 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.
Polynesian culture
Polynesian culture is the culture of the indigenous peoples of Polynesia who share common traits in language, customs and society.
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Polynesian rat
The Polynesian rat, Pacific rat or little rat (Rattus exulans), known to the Māori as kiore, is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind the brown rat and black rat.
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Polynesians
Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean.
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Population pyramid
A population pyramid (age structure diagram) or "age-sex pyramid" is a graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex; it typically takes the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.
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Porpoise
Porpoises are small dolphin-like cetaceans classified under the family Phocoenidae.
Pounamu
Pounamu is a term for several types of hard and durable stone found in the South Island of New Zealand.
Poverty in New Zealand
Poverty in New Zealand deals with the incidence of relative poverty in New Zealand and its measurement.
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Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand
The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) is a major Christian denomination in New Zealand.
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Prime Minister of New Zealand
The prime minister of New Zealand (Te pirimia o Aotearoa) is the head of government of New Zealand.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Programme for International Student Assessment
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading.
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Proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.
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Protected areas of New Zealand
Protected areas of New Zealand are areas that are in some way protected to preserve their environmental, scientific, scenic, historical, cultural or recreational value.
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Protectionism
Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations.
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Provinces of New Zealand
The provinces of the Colony of New Zealand existed as a form of sub-national government.
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Public holidays in New Zealand
Public holidays in New Zealand (also known as statutory holidays) consist of a variety of cultural, national, and religious holidays that are legislated in New Zealand.
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Puysegur Trench
The deep Puysegur Trench is a deep cleft in the floor of the south Tasman Sea formed by the subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate under the Pacific Plate to the south of New Zealand. New Zealand and Puysegur Trench are Zealandia.
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Queenstown Airport
Queenstown International Airport is an international airport located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, which serves the resort town of Queenstown.
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Radio in New Zealand
Radio broadcasting began in New Zealand in 1922, and is now dominated by almost thirty radio networks and station groups.
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Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand (Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa), commonly known as Radio NZ or simply RNZ, is a New Zealand public-service radio broadcaster and Crown entity that was established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995.
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Radiocarbon dating
Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
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Rail transport in New Zealand
Rail transport in New Zealand is an integral part of New Zealand's transport network, with a nationwide network of of track linking most major cities in the North and South Islands, connected by inter-island rail and road ferries.
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Ranfurly, New Zealand
Ranfurly is a town in the Central Otago District of Otago, New Zealand.
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Rangatira
In Māori culture, italics are tribal chiefs, the leaders (often hereditary) of a hapū. (subtribe or clan).
Rangiora
Rangiora is the largest town and seat of the Waimakariri District, in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Raoul Island
Raoul Island (Sunday Island; Rangitāhua) is the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, south south-west of 'Ata Island of Tonga and north north-east of New Zealand's North Island.
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Rātana
Rātana is a Māori Christian church and movement, headquartered at Rātana Pā near Whanganui, New Zealand.
Real and nominal value
In economics, nominal value refers to value measured in terms of absolute money amounts, whereas real value is considered and measured against the actual goods or services for which it can be exchanged at a given time.
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Realm of New Zealand
The Realm of New Zealand is the area over which the monarch of New Zealand is head of state.
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Recession
In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a general decline in economic activity.
Reckitt
Reckitt Benckiser is a British-Dutch multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, United Kingdom, and Hoofddorp, Netherlands.
Recorded Music NZ
Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand.
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Regionalism (art)
American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest.
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Regions of New Zealand
New Zealand is divided into sixteen regions for local government purposes.
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Religious conversion
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.
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Renewable energy in New Zealand
Approximately 44% of primary energy (Heat and power) is from renewable energy sources in New Zealand.
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Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Reserve power
In a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government, a reserve power, also known as discretionary power, is a power that may be exercised by the head of state (or their representative) without the approval of another branch or part of the government.
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Resident minister
A resident minister, or resident for short, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country.
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Resource Management Act 1991
The Resource Management Act (RMA) passed in 1991 in New Zealand is a significant, and at times, controversial Act of Parliament.
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Responsible government
Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
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Richard Seddon
Richard John Seddon (22 June 1845 – 10 June 1906) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier (prime minister) of New Zealand from 1893 until his death.
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Ringatū
The Ringatū church is a Māori church in.
Rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is a publicly traded aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider that operates and launches lightweight Electron orbital rockets used to provide dedicated launch services for small satellites as well as a suborbital variant of Electron called HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron).
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Rogernomics
Rogernomics (a portmanteau of Roger and economics) were the neoliberal economic reforms promoted by Roger Douglas, the Minister of Finance between 1984 and 1988 in the Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand.
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Roll-on/roll-off
Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.
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Ross Dependency
The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
Royal assent
Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch's behalf.
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Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.
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Royal New Zealand Air Force
The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF; Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa) is the aerial service branch of the New Zealand Defence Force.
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Royal New Zealand Navy
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN; Sea Warriors of New Zealand) is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force.
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Royal prerogative
The royal prerogative is a body of customary authority, privilege, and immunity recognized in common law (and sometimes in civil law jurisdictions possessing a monarchy) as belonging to the sovereign, and which have become widely vested in the government.
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Rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union or more often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Rugby World Cup
The Men's Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams, the winners of which are recognised as the World champions of the sport.
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Ruthanasia
Ruthanasia, a portmanteau of "Ruth" and "euthanasia", is the pejorative name (typically used by opponents) given to the period of free-market policies conducted during the first term of the fourth National government in New Zealand, from 1990 to 1993.
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Saint Bathans mammal
The Saint Bathans mammal is a currently unnamed extinct primitive mammal from the Early Miocene (Altonian, 18.7 Ma to 15.9 Ma) of New Zealand.
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Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nu'utele, Nu'ulua, Fanuatapu and Namua). New Zealand and Samoa are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean, countries and territories where English is an official language, countries in Oceania, countries in Polynesia, island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
Samoan language
Samoan (Gagana faa Sāmoa or Gagana Sāmoa) is a Polynesian language spoken by Samoans of the Samoan Islands.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Scott Base
Scott Base is a New Zealand Antarctic research station at Pram Point on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim.
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Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.
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Second Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam el Halfa had prevented the Axis from advancing further into Egypt. In October 1942 Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery commander of Eighth Army, opened his offensive against the Axis forces.
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Second Boer War
The Second Boer War (Tweede Vryheidsoorlog,, 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange Free State) over the Empire's influence in Southern Africa.
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Secularity
Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, "worldly" or "of a generation"), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type.
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Seventeen Provinces
The Seventeen Provinces were the Imperial states of the Habsburg Netherlands in the 16th century.
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Sikhism in New Zealand
New Zealander Sikhs number over 40,000 people and account for 0.9% of New Zealand's population as of 2018, forming the country's fastest-growing and fifth-largest religious group.
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Silver fern
Alsophila tricolor, synonym Cyathea dealbata, commonly known as the silver fern or silver tree-fern, or as ponga or punga (from Māori kaponga or ponga),The Māori word ponga, pronounced, has been borrowed into New Zealand English as a generic term for tree ferns.
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Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
The sinking of Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a state terrorism bombing operation by the "action" branch of the French foreign intelligence agency, the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), carried out on 10 July 1985.
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Skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha.
Somali Civil War
The Somali Civil War (Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; الحرب الأهلية الصومالية) is an ongoing civil war that is taking place in Somalia.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. New Zealand and south Africa are countries and territories where English is an official language, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
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South Island
The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.
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Southern Alps
The Southern Alps (officially Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana) are a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side.
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Sovereign
Sovereign is a title that can be applied to the highest leader in various categories.
Spark New Zealand
Spark New Zealand Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications and digital services company providing fixed-line telephone services, mobile phone services, broadband, and digital technology services (including cloud, security, digital transformation, and managed services).
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Spectator sport
A spectator sport is a sport that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its competitions.
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Spiders of New Zealand
New Zealand has 1157 described spider species, with an estimated total fauna of 2000 species.
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Sport New Zealand
Sport New Zealand (Sport NZ) (Māori: Ihi Aotearoa) is a New Zealand Crown entity responsible for governing sport and recreation in New Zealand.
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State school
A state school, public school, or government school is a primary or secondary school that educates all students without charge.
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Statistics New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand (Tatauranga Aotearoa), branded as Stats NZ, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with the collection of statistics related to the economy, population and society of New Zealand.
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Statute of Westminster 1931
The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets the basis for the relationship between the Dominions (now called Commonwealth realms) and the Crown.
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Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947
The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 (Public Act no. 38 of 1947) was a constitutional Act of the New Zealand Parliament that formally accepted the full external autonomy offered by the British Parliament.
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Stewart Island
Stewart Island (Rakiura, 'glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura, formerly New Leinster) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait.
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StraitNZ
StraitNZ, formerly Strait Shipping and Bluebridge, is a New Zealand transport firm that operates roll-on/roll-off freight and passenger shipping across the Cook Strait, between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island, as well as trucking and logistics services across New Zealand.
Structural discrimination in New Zealand
Structural discrimination (also known as structural inequality, systemic discrimination, and institutional racism) occurs in a society "when an entire network of rules and practices disadvantages less empowered groups while serving at the same time to advantage the dominant group".
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Stuff (website)
Stuff is a New Zealand news media website owned by newspaper conglomerate Stuff Ltd (formerly called Fairfax).
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Sub-replacement fertility
Sub-replacement fertility is a total fertility rate (TFR) that (if sustained) leads to each new generation being less populous than the older, previous one in a given area.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
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Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis or the Second Arab–Israeli War, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and as the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956.
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Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years.
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Supervolcano
A supervolcano is a volcano that has had an eruption with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 8, the largest recorded value on the index.
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Supreme Court of New Zealand
The Supreme Court of New Zealand (Mana) is the highest court and the court of last resort of New Zealand.
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Sweet potato
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
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Takahē
The South Island takahē (Porphyrio hochstetteri) is a flightless swamphen indigenous to New Zealand and the largest living member of the rail family.
Tall poppy syndrome
In Australia and New Zealand, tall poppy syndrome refers to successful people being criticised.
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Tamarillo
The tamarillo (Solanum betaceum) is a small tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae (the nightshade family).
Tangihanga
, or more commonly,, is a traditional funeral rite practised by the Māori people of New Zealand.
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Tasman Sea
The Tasman Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.
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Taupō Volcanic Zone
The Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ) is a volcanic area in the North Island of New Zealand.
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Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Tā moko
Tā moko is the permanent marking or "tattoo" as traditionally practised by Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand is an online encyclopedia established in 2001 by the New Zealand Government's Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
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Te Herenga Waka University Press
Te Herenga Waka University Press or THWUP (formerly Victoria University Press) is the book publishing arm of Victoria University of Wellington, located in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Team New Zealand
Team New Zealand or TNZ is a sailing team based in Auckland, New Zealand representing the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
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Tectonic uplift
Tectonic uplift is the geologic uplift of Earth's surface that is attributed to plate tectonics.
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Telecommunications in New Zealand
Telecommunications in New Zealand are fairly typical for an industrialised country.
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Telephone numbers in New Zealand
The New Zealand telephone numbering plan describes the allocation of telephone numbers in New Zealand and the Pitcairn Islands.
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Television in New Zealand
Television in New Zealand was introduced in 1960 as a state-run service.
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Tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
Territorial authorities of New Zealand
Territorial authorities are the second tier of local government in New Zealand, below regional councils.
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Territorial claims in Antarctica
Seven sovereign states – Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom – have made eight territorial claims in Antarctica.
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Tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education.
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The Chronicles of Narnia (film series)
The Chronicles of Narnia is a fantasy film series and media franchise based on The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of novels by C. S. Lewis.
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The Crown
The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.
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The Hobbit (film series)
The Hobbit is a series of three fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson.
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The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan.
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The Lord of the Rings (film series)
The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy of epic fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson, based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by British author J. R. R. Tolkien.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Zealand Herald
The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand.
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The Original All Blacks
The Original All Blacks (also known simply as "The Originals") were the first New Zealand national rugby union team to tour outside Australasia.
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The Piano
The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by Jane Campion.
The Power of the Dog (film)
The Power of the Dog is a 2021 Western psychological drama film written and directed by Jane Campion.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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The World's Fastest Indian
The World's Fastest Indian is a 2005 New Zealand biographical sports drama film based on the Invercargill, New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro and his highly modified 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle.
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Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand
The racing of Thoroughbred horses (or gallopers, as they are also known) is a popular gaming and spectator sport and industry in New Zealand.
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Time in New Zealand
Time in New Zealand is divided by law into two standard time zones.
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Tohunga
In the culture of the Māori of New Zealand, a tohunga (tōhuka in Southern Māori dialect) is an expert practitioner of any skill or art, either religious or otherwise.
Tokelau
Tokelau (known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean. New Zealand and Tokelau are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean and island countries.
Tonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga), is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. New Zealand and Tonga are Archipelagoes of the Pacific Ocean, countries and territories where English is an official language, countries in Oceania, countries in Polynesia, island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations and member states of the United Nations.
Tonga Trench
The Tonga Trench is an oceanic trench located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Tourism in New Zealand
Tourism in New Zealand comprised an important sector of the national economy – tourism directly contributed NZ$16.2 billion (or 5.8%) of the country's GDP in the year ended March 2019.
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Tourism New Zealand
Tourism New Zealand is the marketing agency responsible for promoting New Zealand as a tourism destination internationally.
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Trans-Tasman
Trans-Tasman is an adjective used primarily to signify the relationship between Australia and New Zealand.
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Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement
The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement (TTTA) is an arrangement between Australia and New Zealand which allows for the free movement of citizens of one of these countries to the other.
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Transdev Wellington
Transdev Wellington is the operator of Wellington's Metlink rail network in New Zealand.
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Transparency International
Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank.
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Transport in New Zealand
Transport in New Zealand, with its mountainous topography and a relatively small population mostly located near its long coastline, has always faced many challenges.
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Transpower New Zealand
Transpower New Zealand Limited (TPNZ) is the state-owned enterprise responsible for electric power transmission in New Zealand.
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Treaty
A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement concluded by sovereign states in international law.
Treaty of Waitangi
The Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi), sometimes referred to as Te Tiriti, is a document of central importance to the history of New Zealand, its constitution, and its national mythos.
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Treaty of Waitangi claims and settlements
Claims and settlements under the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) have been a significant feature of New Zealand politics since the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 and the Waitangi Tribunal that was established by that act to hear claims.
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Tree line
The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing and beyond which they are not.
Tuatara
The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) is a species of reptile endemic to New Zealand.
Tuatua
Paphies subtriangulata is a species of edible bivalve clam known as tuatua in the Māori language, a member of the family Mesodesmatidae and endemic to New Zealand.
Tussock grasslands of New Zealand
Tussock grasslands form expansive and distinctive landscapes in the South Island and, to a lesser extent, in the Central Plateau region of the North Island of New Zealand.
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UKUSA Agreement
The United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement (UKUSA) is a multilateral agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence between Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Ultra-Fast Broadband (New Zealand)
The Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative is a New Zealand Government programme of building fibre-to-the-home networks covering 87% of the population by the end of 2022.
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Uncodified constitution
An uncodified constitution is a type of constitution where the fundamental rules often take the form of customs, usage, precedent and a variety of statutes and legal instruments.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Unicameralism
Unicameralism (from uni- "one" + Latin camera "chamber") is a type of legislature consisting of one house or assembly that legislates and votes as one.
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Unitary authority
A unitary authority is a local authority responsible for all local government functions within its area or performing additional functions that elsewhere are usually performed by a higher level of sub-national government or the national government.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland. New Zealand and United Kingdom are island countries, member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, member states of the United Nations and OECD members.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international treaty that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities.
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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for the follow-up to major United Nations Summits and Conferences, as well as services to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Second and Third Committees of the United Nations General Assembly.
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United Nations Development Programme
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human development.
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United Nations list of non-self-governing territories
Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defines a non-self-governing territory (NSGT) as a territory "whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government".
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. New Zealand and United States are member states of the United Nations.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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United Tribes of New Zealand
The United Tribes of New Zealand (lit) was a confederation of Māori tribes based in the north of the North Island, existing legally from 1835 to 1840.
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University
A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.
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University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury (UC; Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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University of Waikato
The University of Waikato (Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato), established in 1964, is a public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand.
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Urban areas of New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand defines urban areas of New Zealand for statistical purposes (they have no administrative or legal basis).
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Urbanization
Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.
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Vascular plant
Vascular plants, also called tracheophytes or collectively tracheophyta, form a large group of land plants (accepted known species) that have lignified tissues (the xylem) for conducting water and minerals throughout the plant.
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Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation.
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Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington (Te Herenga Waka) is a public research university in Wellington, New Zealand.
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Volcanism of New Zealand
The volcanism of New Zealand has been responsible for many of the country's geographical features, especially in the North Island and the country's outlying islands.
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Voter turnout
In political science, voter turnout is the participation rate (often defined as those who cast a ballot) of a given election.
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Waiheke Island
Waiheke Island (Māori) is the second-largest island (after Great Barrier Island) in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand.
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Waikato River
The Waikato River is the longest river in New Zealand, running for through the North Island.
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Wairau Affray
The Wairau Affray of 17 June 1843, also called the Wairau Massacre and the Wairau Incident, was the first serious clash of arms between British settlers and Māori in New Zealand after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and the only one to take place in the South Island.
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Waitaki River
The Waitaki River is a large braided river in the South Island of New Zealand.
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Waitangi Tribunal
The Waitangi Tribunal (Māori: Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiriti o Waitangi) is a New Zealand permanent commission of inquiry established under the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975.
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Waka (canoe)
Waka are Māori watercraft, usually canoes ranging in size from small, unornamented canoes (waka tīwai) used for fishing and river travel to large, decorated war canoes (waka taua) up to long.
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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.
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Water supply and sanitation in New Zealand
Water supply and sanitation in New Zealand is provided for most people by infrastructure owned by territorial authorities including city councils in urban areas and district councils in rural areas.
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Wānanga
In the education system of New Zealand, a wānanga is a publicly-owned tertiary institution that provides education in a Māori cultural context.
Wētā
Wētā (also spelt weta in English) is the common name for a group of about 100 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae endemic to New Zealand.
Weka
The weka, also known as the Māori hen or woodhen (Gallirallus australis) is a flightless bird species of the rail family.
Welfare in New Zealand
Social welfare has long been an important part of New Zealand society and a significant political issue.
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Welfare state
A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.
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Wellington
Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand.
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Wellington Airport
Wellington International Airport (Taunga Rererangi o Te Whanganui-a-Tara; formerly known as Rongotai Aerodrome or Rongotai Airport) is an international airport located in the suburb of Rongotai in Wellington.
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West Coast Region
The West Coast (lit) is a region of New Zealand on the west coast of the South Island.
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Whakapapa
Whakapapa, or genealogy, is a fundamental principle in Māori culture.
Whale Rider
Whale Rider is a 2002 New Zealand drama film written and directed by Niki Caro.
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Wharenui
A wharenui (literally "large house") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a marae.
Whānau
Whānau is the Māori language word for the basic extended family group.
White Australia policy
The White Australia policy was a set of racist policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic originsespecially Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islandersfrom immigrating to Australia in order to create a "white/British" ideal focused on but not exclusively Anglo-Celtic peoples.
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Whitebait
Whitebait is a collective term for the immature fry of fish, typically between long.
William Hobson
Captain William Hobson (26 September 1792 – 10 September 1842) was an Irish officer in the British Royal Navy, who served as the first Governor of New Zealand.
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William IV
William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837.
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Women's suffrage in New Zealand
Women's suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand.
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World Bank Group
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.
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World Bank high-income economy
A high-income economy is defined by the World Bank as a country with a gross national income per capita of US$14,005 or more in 2023, calculated using the Atlas method.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics fictional character Wolverine.
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Zealandia
Zealandia (pronounced), also known as Te Riu-a-Māui (Māori) or Tasmantis (from Tasman Sea), is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust in Oceania that subsided after breaking away from Gondwana 83–79 million years ago.
Zeeland
Zeeland (Zeêland; historical English exonym Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands.
.nz
.nz is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for New Zealand.
1856 Sewell Ministry
The Sewell Ministry was the first responsible government in New Zealand.
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1888–89 New Zealand Native football team
The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team was a New Zealand rugby union team that toured Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand in 1888 and 1889.
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1973 oil crisis
In October 1973, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) announced that it was implementing a total oil embargo against the countries who had supported Israel at any point during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which began after Egypt and Syria launched a large-scale surprise attack in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to recover the territories that they had lost to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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1979 oil crisis
A drop in oil production in the wake of the Iranian Revolution led to an energy crisis in 1979.
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1st New Zealand Parliament
The 1st New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand.
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2007–2008 financial crisis
The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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2013 New Zealand census
The 2013 New Zealand census was the thirty-third national census.
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2018 New Zealand census
The 2018 New Zealand census was the thirty-fourth national census in New Zealand, which took place on Tuesday 6 March 2018.
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2019 New Zealand local elections
The 2019 New Zealand local elections were triennial elections to select local government officials and district health board members.
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2022 New Zealand local elections
The 2022 New Zealand local elections were triennial elections held in New Zealand on Saturday 8 October 2022.
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2023 New Zealand census
The 2023 New Zealand census, which took place on 7 March 2023, was the thirty-fifth national census in New Zealand.
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See also
Countries in Australasia
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Papua New Guinea
Countries in Oceania
- Australia
- Cook Islands
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Fiji
- Kiribati
- List of Asian and Pacific countries by GDP (PPP)
- List of Oceanian countries by GDP
- List of Oceanian countries by GDP growth
- List of countries in Asia-Pacific by GDP (nominal)
- Marshall Islands
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
Countries in Polynesia
- Cook Islands
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Samoa
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
OECD members
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Japan
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Republic of Ireland
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
States and territories established in 1907
- Agusan (province)
- Bhutan
- Dominion of New Zealand
- Dominion of Newfoundland
- General Madariaga Partido
- Liaoning
- New Zealand
- Nyasaland
- Oklahoma
- Siem Reap province
- Tres Lomas Partido
Zealandia
- Bounty Trough
- Campbell Plateau
- Challenger Plateau
- Chatham Islands
- Chatham Rise
- Geology of Zealandia
- Graveyard Seamounts
- Great South Basin
- Hikurangi Margin
- Hikurangi Trench
- James Healy Seamount
- Kenn Plateau
- Kermadec Trench
- Lord Howe Island
- Lord Howe Rise
- Maahunui volcanic field
- Maari oil field
- Macquarie Fault Zone
- Maui gas field
- Monowai (seamount)
- NORFANZ Expedition
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- New Zealand Subantarctic Islands
- Norfolk Island
- Norfolk Ridge
- Ocean Census Bounty Trough research expedition
- Pohokura field
- Puysegur Trench
- Sandy Island, New Caledonia
- Stokes Magnetic Anomaly
- Taranaki Basin
- Three Kings Ridge
- Tui oil field
- Wanganui Basin
- Zealandia
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