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New Zealand
The Land of the Long White Cloud: people, places, and everything that makes New Zealand unique.
4,626 Questions
Where are the remarkables in New Zealand?
The Remarkables are a mountain range and skifield in Otago, South Island of New Zealand.
Does New Zealand use nuclear power?
New Zealand is not against nuclei themselves, for we have several here.
We do not consider the world is improved by nuclear weapons.
Several 'nuclear powers' have been attacked, Israel, Russia, India, USA, UK but there has been no evidence of the 'nuclear deterrence'.
Identify the criteria for professionalism for the computer industry in New Zealand?
The code of professional conduct is issued under the provisions of Clause 23 of the Constitution of the New Zealand Computer Society Incorporated and is binding on all members of the Society.
Which new zealand city is the first city in the world to greet the sun each day?
Up, of course.
It doesn't matter where you are on Earth. The sun always appears to move from east to west. So in New Zealand, the sun still rises in the east.
Is New Zealand a large country?
Not particularly, only about 4 million people. The total land area is about 26.9 million hectares (around the size of Japan)
How close is Samoa to New Zealand?
The plane ride is about 3 hours. I know this because my mum went on a business trip. Miles: 1793.91 Kilometers:2886.94
What is a large leaved shrub and also a new zealand place name?
Probably Rangiora. A south island town. The rangiora leaf is about the size of an envelope.
Where is the best place to ski in new zealand?
In the South Island, both the Queenstown and Wanaka regions have several well organized skiing areas.
Mt Hutt near Christchurch generally has the earliest opening dates.
In the North Island, the three ski fields around Mt Ruapehu are the principal foci, with good field development.
Yes. The volcano has had numerous eruptions, though only two were massive caldera-forming events. Most future eruptions will probably be much smaller, though could still cause a significant disruption locally, if not regionally.
What are some of New Zealand's man-made features?
Several exotic forest plantations, Hydro-electric power stations, geothermal power stations, and of course the infrastructure systems such as roading, shipping and airways.
New Zealand has some unique industries, e.g. Scott Technologies manufactures assembly lines for export to foreign countries so they may make refrigerators or washing machines and other 'whiteware'.
And in Auckland is a company that makes the majority of GPS chips used around the world. And another company makes giant magnet systems used in silicon wafer manufacture around the world.
Distance from Wellington to napier New Zealand?
355 km taking this route:
- Take SH-1 from Wellington to SH-3 in Sanson.
- Continue on SH-3 to New Plymouth.
What is New Zealands 5 tallest mountains?
The five tallest mountains in New Zealand are as follows:
Aoraki/Mount Cook - 3,754 metres (12,316 ft)
Mount Tasman - 3,497 metres (11,473 ft)
Mount Dampier - 3,440 metres (11,290 ft)
Mount Vancouver - 3,309 metres (10,856 ft)
Silberhorn - 3,300 metres (10,800 ft)
A city in south Africa that south African immigrants to new zealand often came from?
1) Johannesburg, Durban and Pretoria are just a few..
Where was kupe's first landing site?
Legend has it that Kupe's first New Zealand landing point was the Hokianaga Harbour, Northland.
What is the biggest bird in new zealand?
The biggest animal in New Zealand, if including those in the sea around New Zealand, is the Blue whale, but it does not breed in New Zealand waters. It can get to 24m long and 120 tonnes in weight.
The Southern Right whale can be up to18.5m long and weigh up to 130 tonnes, and does breed in New Zealand waters.
For land mammals, the biggest non-native animal would be the elephant Jumbo, who now lives at Franklin Zoo. 'Jumbo' is a female adult African bush elephant so may weigh about 3 tonnes and be about 3m tall. (The only other elephant in New Zealand is the Asian elephant 'Burma' in Auckland Zoo and she may weigh about 2.5 tonnes and be about 2.5m tall.)
The biggest farmed animal would probably be a steer (castrated cattle beast) at over 600kg and up to 1 tonne.
The biggest wild animal would be the wapiti at up to 450kg.
The biggest native land animal (not extinct) would be the flightless parrot the kakapo. They can weigh up to 4kg.
The biggest recently extinct native land animal was the South Island Giant Moa Dinornis giganteus. It could have weighed as much as 200kg and stood 2m high at the high point of the back.
How have tectonic processes affected the natural environment of new zealand?
Less than 250 million years ago, New Zealand was a trench in the ocean floor, being filled in from one side by debris from an island arc of volcanoes; and on the other side, sediments from a granite landmass.
Now, sedimentary rock is lighter than oceanic floor basalt, and eventually New Zealand rose above the sea.
These could all be considered tectonic processes.
New Zealand currently lies across two tectonic plates, the Australian, and the Pacific. Cutting up between these two plates is a major fault zone, the Alpine Fault, which starts on the west of the south island, crosses Cook Strait, and departs New Zealand in the East Cape vicinity.
This great fault may be a displaced Transcurrent Faultfrom the Pacific mid-ocean ridge.
The Pacific Plate dives under New Zealand in the north, and the Australian Plate goes under New Zealand in the Fiordland region. The Southern Alps are much elevated because of this.
The picture of New Zealands tectonic setting is most unusual on the world scene.
Why does it take so long to travel from Los Angeles to New Zealand?
The reason it takes so long to travel from Los Angeles to Auckland is it takes a long time to travel a great distance. It is about 10480 km or 6510 miles. The usual flight time in this direction (It takes an hour longer the other way because if headwinds) of 12 hours gives an average speed of 873km/hr or 542 miles/hr.
