This person is almost ready for his trip to New Zealand. He has almost all of his things
packed and is ready to go. I don’t think there is anyway he can wait any longer. Before we start talking about all that maybe I should tell you about New Zealand first. The geography of the land I guess you could say is similar to that of Australia but its got two islands not just one. The North island of New Zealand is about one thousand miles away from Australia whereas the South Island is about fourteen hundred miles from Antarctica. The North Island has the most attractions and is also the warmer island considering it is farther up. The coast line of the island is bigger than that of the small because the North Island is bigger and both surrounded by water. The South Island is a bit colder but has better beaches and is less crowded because of the travelers going to North Island not south. The South Island has a mountain chain running down the whole thing. That mountain chain is called the Alps. It is one of the greatest in the world for skiing and snowboarding. The highest point of the Alps is Mount Cook. The climate of the islands is about like ours. It gets about high eighties and low nineties in the summer and about fourteen in the winter. The winter there is from June to August whereas the winter is from December to February. Auckland, which is New Zealand’s largest urban city, is located on the North Island. Wellington, New Zealand’s capital has a population of three hundred and twenty six thousand. Wellington Harbor covers seven square miles and is considered the finest deep water port in the whole world. There is not really that much history about New Zealand because the inhabitants passed all the history on by mouth in stories and very little got written. Europeans found New Zealand in the seventeenth century, but it didn’t get settled by the British until the nineteenth century. It is still part of the British Commonwealth today. The first people to come to...