© Bonnie Rose Hudson New Zealand Map Study

Answer the following questions below as you study the map of New Zealand. You may want to do the map study once a day for a few days until you are sure you know the map well. Then move on to the geography drill on the next two pages. Please note: Three Kings Islands are a part of Northland; Great Barrier Island is a part of Auckland; and Stewart Island is part of Southland.

1. What two main islands make up New Zealand?

2. What sea borders New Zealand to the west?

3. What smaller group of islands is a part of the region of Northland?

4. What two bays also have regions named after them?

5. What strait separates the two main islands?

6. What is the capital of New Zealand?

7. What island is the capital of New Zealand on?

8. What major body of water surrounds New Zealand to the east?

9. What strait separates the region of Southland?

10. What smaller island is a part of the region of Southland?

Now that you are familiar with the map of New Zealand, use it to answer the following questions. See if you can answer them all in less than five minutes. Once you are done, set the map and drill aside for a few days. Try the drill again and see if you can still do it in less than five minutes. Can you get your time down to less than three minutes? Less than two minutes?

1. What is the northernmost region of New Zealand?

2. What region has the capital of New Plymouth?

3. Is the region of West Coast on North Island or South Island?

4. What region has the capital of Christchurch?

5. What two bodies of water border the region of Wellington?

6. What two regions border Nelson?

7. What region has the capital of Richmond?

8. What three regions border Otago?

9. What region has the capital of Blenheim?

10. Is the region of Auckland on North Island or South Island?

12. What region is Great Barrier Island a part of?

13. What region has the capital of Hamilton?

14. What four regions does the region of Manawatu-Wanganui border?

15. What region has the capital of Palmerston North?

16. Is the region of Gisborne on North Island or South Island?

17. What region does Southland not border—West Coast, Auckland, or Otago?

18. What two regions border the region of Auckland?

19. What region has the capital of Dunedin?

20. What is the southernmost region of New Zealand?

1. North Island and South Island 2. Tasman Sea 3. Three Kings Islands 4. Bay of Plenty and Hawke’s Bay 5. Cook Strait 6. Wellington 7. North Island 8. Pacific Ocean 9. Foveaux Strait 10. Stewart Island

New Zealand Geography Drill Answer Key

1. Northland 2. Tranaki 3. South Island 4. Canterbury 5. Pacific Ocean and Cook Strait 6. Tasman and Marlborough 7. Tasman 8. Southland, West Coast, and Canterbury 9. Marlborough 10. North Island 11. Bay of Plenty 12. Auckland 13. Waikato 14. Taranaki, Waikato, Hawke’s Bay, and Wellington 15. Manawatu-Wanganui 16. North Island 17. Auckland 18. Northland and Waikato 19. Otago 20. Southland © Bonnie Rose Hudson www.writebonnierose.com