"New Zealand" a New Zealand Travel Page by rozehill

NEW ZEALAND POPULATION
JUST REACHED 4,000,000 POPULATION IN APRIL 2003.
IT HAS TAKEN NEW ZEALAND 30 YEARS TO REACH ITS 4TH MILLION, A TREMENDOUS MILESTONE FOR THIS TINY COUNTRY.

YET HAS 40,000,000 sheep!
New Zealand lies deep in the South Pacific Ocean approximately 1600kms south east of Australia, its nearest neighbour. NZ has 3 main islands, the North, South and Stewart Islands, it is similar in size to Japan or U.K. Being in the temperate zone the climate is coastal maritime to alpine, mild and equable with abundant sunshine, high rainfall and few extremes of heat and cold. Geographically it is a land of fertile plains on the coast, glaciated mountain ranges, deep sinuous fiords surrounded by ancient forests, and volcanic plateaux complete with geysers, boiling mud pools and thermal springs.