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Cook Strait ( Māori: Te Moana-o-Raukawa, lit. 'The Sea of Raukawa ') is a strait that separates North Island from the South Island of New Zealand. The strait connects the Tasman Sea on the northwest with the South Pacific Ocean on the southeast. It is 22 kilometres (14 mi) wide at its narrowest point, [ 1] and is considered one of the most ...
An annotated relief map. New Zealand is located in the South Pacific Ocean at , near the centre of the water hemisphere. [4] It is a long and narrow country, extending 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) along its north-north-east axis with a maximum width of 400 kilometres (250 mi). [5]
Left-hand traffic ( LHT) and right-hand traffic ( RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of the road, respectively. They are fundamental to traffic flow, and are sometimes called the rule of the road. [ 1 ] The terms right- and left-hand drive refer to the position of the driver and ...
Designed by architect Francis Petre, it was generally held to be the finest renaissance-style building in New Zealand. [2] On 7 April 1983, the building was registered as a Category I heritage item by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, with the registration number 47. It was regarded as an outstanding example of church architecture in ...
National Iwi Chairs Forum. The National Iwi Chairs Forum is an entity founded in 2005 made up of the chairpersons of 71 iwi groups in New Zealand, facilitating the sharing of information among iwi leaders. The Forum holds meetings four times a year at different marae throughout the country and brings together Māori leaders around strategic topics.
The North Island ( Māori: Te Ika-a-Māui, lit. 'the fish of Māui', officially North Island or Te Ika-a-Māui or historically New Ulster) is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the larger but less populous South Island by Cook Strait. With an area of 113,729 km 2 (43,911 sq mi), [ 1] it is the world's 14th-largest island ...
Christchurch Central City or Christchurch City Centre is the geographical centre and the heart of Christchurch, New Zealand.It is defined as the area within the Four Avenues (Bealey Avenue, Fitzgerald Avenue, Moorhouse Avenue and Deans Avenue [4]) and thus includes the densely built up central city, some less dense surrounding areas of residential, educational and industrial usage, and green ...
Te-Oneroa-a-Tōhē / Ninety Mile Beach[ 1] is on the western coast of the far north of the North Island of New Zealand. [ 2] The beach is actually 88 kilometres (55 miles) long. [ 3] Its southern end is close to the headland of Tauroa Point, to the west of Ahipara Bay, near Kaitaia. From there it sweeps briefly northeast before running ...