Name: 地理現在紐西蘭 (AOTEAROA) (Geography Now! NEW ZEALAND (AOTEAROA))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:20:01.000Z
Duration: 17 min 37 s
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Now when I think of New Zealand, really only 1 word seems to come to mind:

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New Zealand is one of those places where a few people have made a powerful image for themselves.

It's one of the last places on Earth to be discovered and inhabited by humans,

and when they arrived, it was unlike anything anyone had ever seen.

Mostly because there were these massive, 12 feet tall bird monsters.

We'll get into that in a bit, but first...

New Zealand is not only a key player in the ocean nations, but a geographic anomaly.

As in, half the time when you look at artwork or decorations or newscasts or even educational books,

Kiwis even joke about it. Even their government website "404 Page Not Found" website pokes fun at it.

Anyway, New Zealand, or Aotearoa, is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean,

about 1,200 miles (or 2,000 kilometers) off the coast of Australia

and about 600 miles (or 1,000 kilometers) from the nearest major islands of Fiji, Tonga, and New Caledonia,

meaning technically, France is their closest neighbor.

The country is made up of 2 main large islands, aptly named the North Island, or Te-Ika a-Maui,

which makes up about 42% of the landmass yet holds about ¾ of the population,

and the larger yet less populated South Island, or Te Waipou-Namu, at about 56% of the land mass.

The remaining 2-ish% of the land mass is made up of hundreds of interior and outlying islands,

33 main ones that are either around the main 2 islands like the largest one, Stewart Island just south of South Island,

Then you have the outlying island chains, like the northernmost Kermadec Islands,

the easternmost Chatham Islands, and the Subantarctic southernmost point, the Campbell Islands.

The country is a unitary state divided into 16 councils; 11 regional councils and 5 unitary regional councils.

The Chatham Islands act as their own special territorial authority.

The second largest city, Wellington, is the capital, the southernmost capital in the world.

However, Auckland up north is the largest city, which holds about a third of the entire population of the country

with the largest and busiest airport, Auckland International.

Otherwise, Christchurch on South Island is the third largest city

and holds the second busiest airport, Christchurch International.

But wait, that's not all! The sovereignty claim extends even further

and then you get the 3 New Zealand Realm territories and free association island nations.

These are Tokelau, the Cook Islands, and Niue.

Tokelau is considered a non-self-governing dependent territory.

It also has a territorial dispute with American Samoa over Swains Island.

Whereas the Cook Islands and Niue are labeled as self-governing states in free association with New Zealand.

Finally, you have the Ross Dependency, which is New Zealand's claim to Antarctica,

which of course under the Antarctic Treaty does not actually fall under their sovereignty, but you know.

A lot of people like to say they have something they can't.

Whoo! For a nation that doesn't even show up half the time on maps, there's a lot going on here!

But wait! If New Zealand is just an island in the middle of the Pacific, which continent is New Zealand a part of?

Ah, good question. That is a question that has kind of stumped cartographers for centuries.

In the simplest sense, categorically New Zealand is part of the broader region known as Oceania,

which is basically just Australia plus everything else in Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

Technically, Australia and New Zealand together are called Australasia.

However, it's weird because New Zealand doesn't lie on the same continental shelf as Australia.

This has led to the consideration of New Zealand belonging to a newer sub-region known as Zealandia,

classified by some dude in the 90s as either a continental fragment or a "microcontinent"

made up of a submerged continental crust shelf that expands all the way from New Caledonia

to an empty spot in the ocean just south of the Campbell Islands.

93% of Zealandia is submerged, with New Zealand being the largest protruding segment.

Either way, however, you want to categorize it, New Zealand is kind of strange.

Wait! Go back to the self-governing island thing.

Do they belong to New Zealand or are they full countries?

NEW ZEALAND: Okay guys, look, the British just kind of put you under my jurisdiction,

so I guess that means you're all New Zealand citizens, okay?

COOK ISLANDS: Yeah, but we all have our own languages and customs

and want to write a constitution for ourselves with free association status.

We're basically countries in our own right but under your overarching sovereignty, I guess.

NIUE: Like your military can come in for defense, but otherwise we got everything else covered.

TOKELAU: I mean, guys, I have less than 2,000 people on less than 5 square miles of land on 3 islands.

I think I'll just become a dependent territory state.

NZ: All right, fair enough. Two "kind of" countries with loose ties

and 1 dependent territory country with stronger ties. Got it.

TK: Plus, hey, I became the first completely solar-powered nation in the world.

NZ: Not exactly fully functional "sovereign nation state" by definition but yeah, good for you!

Some places of interest in New Zealand might include:

the world's steepest street at a gradient of 38°,

Auckland Sky Tower (you can actually jump off of it),

the Rotorua geysers in traditional Māori village,

so many wine fields like the ones in Marlborough,

Ninety Mile Beach (which is actually only 56 miles),

And honestly, I could go on and on with all the natural wonders of this country,

but that would take like 50 videos and we gotta cram as much as we can in this one.

So let's just talk about all the natural stuff of New Zealand. Shall we?

Now, New Zealand is an outdoors country, world-renowned for its mind-blowingly wonderful landscape,

displayed in a number of films and movies.

Fun fact: "The Lord of the Rings" gave them so much publicity and tourism money

that they even have a Minister of the Rings in their Parliament.

You wrote the script for the episode and I'm just reading off the teleprompter, so I figured you would know that.

The country is located in the Ring of Fire on the convergence of the Pacific and Australian plates

that creates the mountainous Southern Alps of the southern island.

Here you can find the tallest peak, Mt. Cook, or Aoraki, at over 12,000 feet (or 3,700 meters),

whereas across the Cook Strait, the smaller Kaweka range can be found in the North Island.

This, in return, makes the country subject to earthquakes and volcanic activity.

There are about 83 known volcanoes of all types, and the largest active one being Ruapehu on North Island.

Otherwise, you can see other volcanic wonders like the dormant Banks Peninsula on South Island,

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