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	History of New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Archaeological evidence indicates that New Zealand was populated by fishing and hunting people of East Polynesian ancestry perhaps 1,000 years before Europeans arrived.
		New Zealand was declared a dominion by a royal proclamation in 1907.
		New Zealand was featured as the setting for "Middle Earth" in the renowned early 21st century trilogy of films based on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings books.
	www.historyofnations.net /oceania/newzealand.html (911 words)

	New Zealand - Uncyclopedia
		New Zealand is often referred to as the 8th state of Australia.
		With a population of almost 56, New Zealand is often referred to as New Z-land, mainly due to the difficulty citizens of America have wuth pronouncing 'Zed'.
		New Zealand has the most beautiful sheep in the world and is the envy of all nations, many of whose male citizens are tempted by the these woolly sirens.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand (3327 words)

	The geological history of New Zealand
		This is due to New Zealand's modern position on the boundary of the Australian and the Pacific Plates.
		The subduction zones in New Zealand are defined by trenches in the north and in the south and by the Alpine Fault which connects the two.
		The movement of the New Zealand continental block also resulted in a marine transgression and by the Oligocene period (about 35 million years ago) most of the country was submerged.
	sci.waikato.ac.nz /evolution/geologicalHistory.shtml (1100 words)

	History of New Zealand - NZ History
		The appearance of new seas was blocking their dispersal routes, and for New Zealand which was beginning to detach itself completely from other continents, this was particularly the case.
		New Zealand’s first European settlers were temporary – sealers (who reduced the seal population dramatically) and then whalers (who did the same to whales).
		New Zealand fought for the British in the Boer War of 1899-1902 and in WWI suffering heavy losses.
	www.seriousfunnewzealand.com /aboutnz/new-zealand-history.cfm (2292 words)

	WW1 History of New Zealand (NZ)
		New Zealand was involved in the First World War by the King's declaration of war.
		The total number of New Zealand troops and nurses to serve overseas in 1914-18, excluding those in British and other Dominion forces, was more than 100,000, from a population of just under a million.
		New Zealand had no air force of her own during the First World War but several hundred New Zealanders served with the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-nz/nz-ww1-history.htm (581 words)

	New Zealand Facts and Features
		New Zealand at a Glance The popularity of New Zealand with international visitors is growing year by year.
		New Zealand - Ancient and Modern History Links to New Zealand history from the arrival of the Maori, Captain Cook, the Treaty of Waitangi, Gallipoli, the Rainbow Warrior, recent economic reforms...
		New Zealand Nature Peer into the bright blue of glacier ice, smell the sulphurous steam from a seething geothermal vent, delve into the limestone underworld or watch a waterfall plunge more than 600 metres into one of the world's deepest fiords.
	www.chemistry.co.nz /new_zealand_facts.htm (1088 words)

	New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Zealand was initially administered as a part of the colony of New South Wales, and it became a separate colony in November 1840.
		New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the Australian colonies.
		New Zealand was one of the first to join the Allies when it declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, along with France, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada after the invasion of Poland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand (5564 words)

	History of New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Zealand decided against joining the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901, and instead changed from being a colony to a separate "dominion" in 1907, equal in status to Australia and Canada.
		The independence of New Zealand and the other dominions, was recommended by the 1926 Balfour Declaration and implemented in the 1931 Statute of Westminster which was ratified on November 25, 1947.
		New Zealand was featured as the filming location for "Middle-earth" in the renowned early 21st century trilogy of films based on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_New_Zealand (3241 words)

	A History of New Zealand
		Sir George Grey was governor of New Zealand from 1845 to 1853.
		New Zealand was made a dominion in 1907.
		New Zealand is famous for sheep although it also has many cattle.
	www.localhistories.org /newzealand.html (1355 words)

	New Zealand - Ancient and Modern History
		The New Zealand Wars were fought in New Zealand by Maori people, the British Army and new settlers, between 1843 and 1872.
		They were offered a new life in New Zealand; a free passage with their families, and a cottage with an acre of land to become theirs after a seven year term, in return for certain military duties.
		Though the campaign was a failure, Anzac (initials of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) has come to stand, in the words of the historian, C.E.W. Bean, "for reckless valour in a good cause, for enterprise, recourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance", remembered each year on April 25th.
	www.enzed.com /hist.html (1456 words)

	New Zealand History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Immigration.British and Irish immigration to New Zealand, NZHistory.net.
		From Memory oral history project records the voices of New Zealanders who have served their country in time of war: soldiers, sailors, airmen, nurses and the thousands of other personnel at home and overseas.
		An overview of New Zealand history,from the separation of the country from the ancient continent of Gondwana, 80 million years ago, to the arrival of the Polynesians and Europeans and the present day.
	www.zeroland.co.nz /new_zealand_history.html (1516 words)

	History of New Zealand Film
		New Zealand had its own version of the Rocky story shot nearly seventy years later with the amusingly titled The Kid from Timaru in 1917.
		During the 1920s and 1930s most film shot was scenic or newsreels, with the major exception of The Birth of New Zealand, which featured a re-enactment of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
		New Zealand film has a bit of a reputation as being a bit grim, and these movies certainly are.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/new_zealand_history/40569 (543 words)

	History - Swimming New Zealand
		Swimming New Zealand was formed in 1890, then called the New Zealand Amateur Swimming Association, which was 10 years after the first club was formed in Christchurch.
		New Zealand swimmers have competed in the Olympic Games since the 1912 Stockholm Games when Malcolm Champion was part of the gold medal winning 4 x 200m freestyle relay for the Australasian Team.
		Danyon Loader is New Zealand's most successful swimmer, achieving double golds at Atlanta, a silver in Barcelona, and a World Record, and one of New Zealand's most successful Olympians.
	www.swimmingnz.org.nz /about-us/history (337 words)

	History of the New Zealand Womens Army Corps
		With the formation of the New Zealand Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, the Tui was selected as the Corps emblem.
		The Tui continued to be used as the emblem for the New Zealand Women's Army Corps and finally the New Zealand Women's Royal Army Corps.
		It was the last badge to be worn by New Zealand WRAC's, worn by all ranks, it was an anodised aluminium badge with a green enamel garter.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-nz/nzwrac.htm (1005 words)

	A History of New Zealand Soccer
		And after six round-robin matches apiece, New Zealand and China were locked together in second place, forcing a play-off in the neutral territory of Singapore on January 10, 1982, the means by which one nation would experience agony, the other ecstasy.
		New Zealand internationals are now plying their trade in nations as far-flung as Iceland, Singapore, South Africa, Australia, England, Belgium, the USA and Germany, as well as here at home.
		Soccer in New Zealand has benefitted greatly from the involvement of any number of key people over the years, and of those, a handful are deserving of greater recognition than to merely be mentioned in dispatches.
	www.ultimatenzsoccer.com /NZRepSoccer/id27.htm (2107 words)

	History in New Zealand : New Zealand History, Maori History
		At this time in New Zealand history, intertribal Maori warfare was frequent, and the arrival of guns, which Maori traded from Pakeha, made it deadly.
		The systematic colonial settlement of New Zealand was largely based on the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who believed the colonial settlements should be modelled on the structures of British society.
		During the mid and late 1800s in New Zealand history, a large number of Scottish migrants settled in New Zealand, especially in the South Island provinces of Otago and Southland.
	www.tourism.net.nz /new-zealand/nz/heritage-and-history (1734 words)

	The Jewish Virtual History Tour - New Zealand
		The development of the Jewish population in New Zealand began in the early decades of the 19th century.
		The New Zealand Jewish Council serves as the representative of the community to the government, working to safeguard the interests of the community.
		New Zealand has a long history of support for Israel beginning with support for the Partition Plan in 1947.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/New_Zealand.html (1132 words)

	New Zealand Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		New Zealand is a country of rare seismic beauty: glacial mountains, fast-flowing rivers, deep, clear lakes, hissing geysers and boiling mud.
		When To Go The weather is never so miserable that there's no point in going to New Zealand: there are things to see and do all year round.
		New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, had a lot of help from his countrymen.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/pacific/new-zealand (324 words)

	Home - NZHistory.net.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A history of the suffragist movement in New Zealand, the first country in the world to grant women the vote in 1893.
		Anzac Day in New Zealand is held on 25 April each year to commemorate New Zealanders killed in war and to honour returned servicemen and women.
		NZHistory.net.nz is produced by the History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
	www.nzhistory.net.nz (159 words)

	New Zealand Steel: History
		The story of New Zealand Steel is as much the story of the 'fl sands' of the west coast of New Zealand's North Island.
		New Zealand Steel Limited was incorporated in 1965.
		New Zealand Steel is acquired by Helenus Corporation, which comprises Fisher and Paykel, Steel and Tube, ANZ Bank (NZ) Group Ltd and BHP.
	www.nzsteel.co.nz /go/about-new-zealand-steel/history (558 words)

	New Zealand Natural History Guide Book - The Tuatara
		Tuataras were once found all over New Zealand but now they only survive on offshore islands because of the rodents, wild cats and pigs that were introduced to the mainland.
		Further to Martin Hunt's information on numbers of tuatara, they are found on ~30 islands around New Zealand, having become extinct from the mainland last century.
		This population is one of the focuses of the NZ Department of Conservation's tuatara recovery plan - juveniles are being headstarted in captivity to be released on other islands to ensure more wild populations, as well as a permanent (?) captive colony.
	www.nz.com /new-zealand/guide-book/natural-history/tuatara.aspx (612 words)

	Accordion History in New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Considering the dates that the earliest types of accordion were invented, one would not expect accordions to be mentioned in any early colonial literature of New Zealand, especially since New Zealand is half way around the world from the centres of accordion development.
		It seems that New Zealand's Maori inhabitants were not slow to perceive the potential of the accordion for by 1901 they were using it to accompany their own songs.
		Although concertinas and some accordions were in New Zealand at earlier times it seems that the year 1936 marked the beginning of the growth of accordion marketing in New Zealand.
	www.accordions.com /index/his/his_nz.shtml (674 words)

	History of New Zealand Glass
		The history of glass in New Zealand began in the nineteenth century when the first settlers from Europe brought their bottles and glasses from home.
		In the mid 19th century New Zealand was a wild and war-torn country, with all its manufactured goods coming by sea, mostly from England.
		As they grew and wanted to establish a brand image, New Zealand breweries required bottles with their own names and these too were imported from England.
	www.glass.co.nz /NZglasshistory.htm (1225 words)

	New Zealand Guide Book
		The Weather section gives maximum and minimum temperatures for most New Zealand cities as well as recommendations for what to wear at different times of the year.
		The History section includes notable New Zealanders, information about colonial New Zealand and the New Zealand flag.
		And finally, The Hitchhiker's Guide to New Zealand is a comical coverage of geography, history, politics, and culture.
	www.nz.com /new-zealand/guide-book (297 words)

	New Zealand History: Maori and European NZ History
		Marae Visits Visitors to New Zealand should make some time to visit a Marae and there are plenty scattered throughout New Zealand (Marae Directory).
		Following the signing of the treaty of Waitangi in 1840 when British sovereignty was proclaimed over New Zealand Europeans began to arrive in large numbers.
		This cause tensions between the European and the native Maori's and a series of battles occurred during the 1860's which are known as the New Zealand land wars.
	www.backpack-newzealand.com /history.html (1293 words)

	WWW Virtual Library Labour History: New Zealand
		Macmillan Brown Library Detailed overview of the trade union collections at the Macmillan Brown Library, the University of Canterbury's research collection of New Zealand and Pacific Islands materials.
		Trade Union History Project This organization was established in 1987 to foster and record New Zealand trade union and labour history.
		New Zealand Labour History Articles by Kath Clark and David Verran on New Zealand trade unions and their leaders.
	www.iisg.nl /~w3vl/newzealand.html (179 words)

	History of New Zealand
		Isolated from the rest of the world by vast expanses of ocean, New Zealand was a haven for unique species of flora and fauna, including many species of flightless birds that evolved in safety at ground level through the millennia.
		The first Europeans believed to have visited New Zealand were led by Abel Janszoon Tasman from the Netherlands.
		Four months later, Tasman and his crew spotted the coast of a new land that Tasman described as 'a large land, uplifted high.' He named it 'Staten Landt,' in reference to the Land of the Dutch States-General.
	www.virtualoceania.net /newzealand/culture/history.shtml (490 words)

	New Zealand History - TravelPuppy.com
		In 1852 New Zealand was granted internal self government.
		In 1907, New Zealand became a Dominion and its armed forces took part in both World War 1 and 2.
		New Zealand is a member of the Commonwealth.
	travelpuppy.com /new-zealand/history.htm (678 words)

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