Location_Geography

[BACK] =Location and Geography=

New Zealand has two main islands, the North and South Islands, //Te Ika a Maui// and //Te Wai Pounamu. Combined, they are// a little smaller than Italy or Japan.

The capital of the north island is Wellington and the capital of the south island is Queenstown.

=Weather=

New Zealand is a pretty wet country, its rains a lot during the year and even snows in some places. because of the rain, New Zealand is very green. There are lots of hills and mountains and it even snows on the big ones for most of the year. Below is a weather forcast for Auckland. click [|here] to see the weather for the rest of the country.

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Sometimes people making making movies like to film there because the countryside is so nice to look at. The Lord of the Rings movies were all filmed there as well as King Kong for example.