New Zealand

1. The landscape and environment

1.1. Animal life: 70% of animal life is eniterly unique to New Zeland.

1.1.1. These incude: Kākāpō, Kiwi, Kea, Takahe and many more. And the above mentioned are only birds some other animals are: Tuatara, Hector's dolphin, New Zealand fur seal...

1.2. Natural Beauty: New Zeland is best known for its natural wonders and parks.

1.2.1. For Example: MILFORD SOUND FIORDLAND, CHAMPAGNE POOLS WAI-O-TAPU, WAITOMO GLOWWORMS WAITOMO, THE BLUE POOLS HAAST PASS...

2. Rights , people & independance

2.1. Womens Rights: In 1893, New Zeland gave women rights.

2.2. Independence: In 1947, New Zeland gains independace from Britain.

2.3. The Dawn raid: Police raided homes of "overstayers".

2.4. New Voting System: In 1993, the new MMP voting was introduced.

3. British rule

3.1. The 1840 treaty: A treaty between the Britain and Maori.

3.2. War with Brittain: A land war including the Maori and Britain in 1845.

3.3. Separtion from Britain: New Zeland separates from Britain in 1907.

3.4. Pension Increase: In 1907, the government increase old age pensions.

4. Interesting events

4.1. The kiwi: The kiwi was named the national brid of New Zeland.

4.2. First woman prime minister: In 1997, Jenny Skipky was elected.

4.3. LOTR: the lord of the rings trilogy is filmed in newzeland in 2001.

4.4. SSM are allowed: Same sex marriages are legalised in 2013.

5. Notable people:

5.1. Russel Crowe; A famous actor who has played in many notable movies.

5.2. Peter Jackson: he is a famous director most notable for LOTR

5.3. Lorde: a famous musical artist.

6. Land

6.1. Treaty of Waitangi: New Zelands founding document from 1840.

6.2. New Zeland Wars: A series of Wars in the 19th century.

6.3. Taranaki wars: Wars between Taranaki Maori and Britain, Australia, New Zeland. They started in 1860 and ended 1866.

6.4. WW1: One of 4 men between ages 20 and 45 were sent to war.

7. Geography & key information

7.1. Population: 5.1 milion.

7.2. Size: 268,021 km².

7.3. Curreny: New Zeland Dollar.

7.4. Cities

7.4.1. Capiatal: Wellington

7.4.2. Others: Auckland, Dunedin, Hamilton, Napier...

7.5. Location: Ociania

8. Independece and other war

8.1. Full independence: New Zealand gets full indepence.

8.2. Army: New Zealand helps in Korean wars.

8.3. 1960 Combat Forces: New Zealand supporst The U.S in Vietnam war.

8.4. Tekoots war: From 1868 to 1872 New Zealand was in war with Maori tribes.

9. Disasters

9.1. Earthquake: In 1931 New Zealand was struck with an earthquake that killed 256.

9.2. Rainbow warrior: The first act of terrosimn in New Zealand.

9.3. Canterbury: In Sempember 2010 an earthquake devastatesthe city.

9.4. Christchurch: An earthquake strikes killing 185 people.

10. Culture

10.1. Festivals:Many music festivals all around the year.

10.2. Holidays: Normal western holidays but some extra that are unique to the country.

10.3. Traditions: Kindness, tolerance and friendship.

11. Languages

11.1. Maori

11.2. English

11.3. Otago