New Zealand History

Dunedin was founded in 1848 in New Zealand.

The Sky Tower in Auckland.

Baldwin Street (the world's steepest street) in Dunedin.

The L&P bottle in Paeroa.

The giant carrot at Onehunga.

The statue of a guy shearing a sheep in Te Kuiti.

The Hermitage (resort/hotel) in Mt Cook Village.

Many towns have large fibre-glass or plastic 'statues' that symbolise their town or region, like trout.

Cromwell has giant fruit.

The list goes on...

During World War 1 the ANZACs were sent to three different locations.

1. The Western Front

2. Gallipoli

3. The Middle East

"The Western Front was the name the Germans gave to a series of trenches that ran 700 kilometres from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border." - 'Don't forget me, cobber!' by Matt Anderson

The Gallipoli Campaign was an attempt to capture the capital of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Istanbul. It was also to make a sea route to Russia. But the plan failed.

ANZACs were sent to the Middle East and Jerusalem to free it from the hold of the Turks and Muslims. The 800 light horsemen were a famous battalion of troops who played a role in the war in the Middle East.

Kosovans are not refugees, they are tourists.

Christmas is the biggest (on the 25th of December). Easter Monday and Sunday are quite important, as are New Year's Eve and Day. Waitangi Day on the 6th of February is of note, and various anniversary's of cities mean holidays in those particular places. Labour day is on the 4th Monday of October, and is a public holiday. I don't know if these count as 'Festivals' as such, we aren't a big country for them. I think these are all the public holidays though. (The time between Christmas and early January tends to effectively be holidays too.)

The Greenpeace flagship, the 'Rainbow Warrior' arrived in New Zealand in July 1985 in preparation for leading a flotilla of boats to Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean to protest against French nuclear tests on the atoll. Just before midnight on 10 July 1985, underwater charges which had been placed by frogmen on the hull of the Rainbow Warrior, exploded, sinking the vessel while it was in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand. One person was killed in the explosion, Portuguese photographer Fernando Periero. On 22 September 1985, Prime Minister of France Laurent Fabius admitted that the bombing had been carried out by 2 secret agents belonging to the French foreign intelligence agency, DGSC, or Directorate-General for External Security.

The designer of Anzac Square was Brisbane and Cowper

The Maori War is a series of battles where each tribe made a final stand. The important people which died in the war were the Atiawa at Waitara, Waikato at Rangiriri, Ngai-te-Rangi, Ngati Maniapoto at Orakau, in which death were all honored.

Capes can be formed by glaciers, volcanoes, and changes in sea level

1834 by James cook.

New Zealand's founding document is considered to be the Treaty of Waitangi, dating to Feb 6 1840. However, the Maori have been living in NZ since the 1300s.

Anzac soldiers had been buried in a special grave.

The Koroneihana is celebrated every year on August 21st at Turangawaewae marae in Ngāruawāhia.

ANZAC Day is commemorated (not celebrated) by people who live in Australia and New Zealand. No doubt Italians who live in these countries do commemorate ANZAC Day, especially Italians who have accepted citizenship of these countries.

ANZAC Cove is the site on the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, which was previously known as Ari Birun.

Cape Karikari, Cape Wiwiki and Cape Brett are all just to the south of Cape Reinga on the east coast of North Island in New Zealand. North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand.

the relationship deteriorated. trade was weakened

Rudall Hayward made a silent version of 'Rewi's Last Stand' in 1925 and remade it with sound in 1939.

The Moriori were Maori who settled the Chatham Islands, an isolated group of Islands East of the South Island but part of New Zealand.

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they where anzac trophys and march along and remember the people who died in war. they also wore it so they can show how good they did at war and training thats why they where anzac trophys. i saw a story that an old man was wearing a trophy and almost cried of the people who died...

When he began the settlement in 1867, he had the desire to live peacefully alongside the Europeans but not be ruled by them so it was in his nature to protest in a peaceful manner. If he had retaliated to the government using force and beginning another war, he would have been outnumbered and outgunned by the government and would have lost, had his people killed and his settlement destroyed and all hope of living peacefully alongside the Europeans would have been lost. By using passive resistance he could protest for this peaceful existence without the government crushing him and his people like they had done previously with other Maori tribes. The quote by Colonel Whitmore the minister of defence at the time gives a good European perspective as to why Te whiti might have used passive resistance: "If Te Whiti takes up arms it will take a very short time to deal with Te Whiti. He is much more troublesome to us as a prophet than he ever would be if he took down firelock and used it on the settlers.

The 1970s and 1980s saw a number of refugees arriving in New Zealand. They were fleeing war and came from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

Just like anywhere else - it'd be anarchy! There's be looting, murder, lots of gangfights - probably a WHOLE lot of domestic violence and child abuse, too. And drugs - methamphetamine is huge in New Zealand, and marijuana too.

John Britten was a revolutionary motorcycle designer who lived in Christchurch New Zealand. His famous bike is the Britten V1000.

He was born on the first of August 1950 and died on the fifth of September 1995.

Refer to the link below for information on the company he founded to develop this bike.

A horn-of-plenty, or Cornucopia. In mythology, it was magical and would never empty, no matter how much was taken from it.