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NEW ZEALAND ADVENTURE including the story of THE MYSTERIOUS KAIMANAWA WALL By Karyn Collett Illustrations of NORA by Ilja De La Guerre Published by CASE OF ADVENTURE HEY THERE TRAVELER! Are you ready to have the time of your life? We’re gonna go adventuring in the fascinating country of New Zealand!. This country is even further South than Australia and is made up of two large islands out of more than 10 000 in Oceania.., It’s jam-packed with mystery and beautiful places to explore.. Grab your passport and let’s go! Your instructions are on page 60. ! © caseofadventure.com COPYRIGHT We want you to have a fabulous time and enjoy every moment of your adventure, so please feel free to let us know by emailing [email protected] if you have any questions or queries about your product. 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CREDITS Longest Place Name Photo By foolfillment (Flickr) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons L&P Statue https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Lemonpaeroa.JPG By User Roisterer on en.wikipedia [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons Savory Pies https://www.flickr.com/photos/srslyguys/7992201799 2 FLYING TIME Greetings, passengers! Tena WELCOME! koutou! I’m Captain Marco, the CASE OF ADVENTURE pilot! I’ll be flying you to exotic countries all over the world. Today we are flying waaaay down South to the beautiful islands of New Zealand. Remember to fill in the blanks on your airplane ticket and paste it on your project page! We hope you enjoyed your special breakfast of fruit salad, yoghurt, scrambled eggs, chick- Hi there! Kia Ora! I’m en sausage and baked beans! We will be Nora. I’m so happy to landing very soon. meet you. Welcome to the beautiful country of My special friend, Nora, will be meeting you New Zealand! in Zealand and showing you around her country! We hope you have an awesome I hope you enjoy time and thank you for flying with CASE OF exploring New Zealand! ADVENTURE Airlines! We hope to see you We have giant mountains, again soon! volcanoes, stunning beaches, lakes, glaciers, rainforests, lively cities MARMITE and lots of sheep! ON TOAST The friendly Kiwis as I like to call them, would not be happy if you confused them with Australians! New Zealanders are dierent. For one thing we prefer Marmite to Vegemite! Vegemite is Australian, but Marmite is British. Have you tried it? It’s a brown-black paste that some people find kind of gross, but can be really yummy! AUCKLAND IS THE LARGEST CITY. IN NEW ZEALAND 4 TWO MAIN ISLANDS New Zealand has two main islands, North Island and South Island. I live on North Island in the capital city of Wellington. The largest city, Auckland, is on the top end of North Island, while we’re at the bottom. On the South Island, Christchurch and Dunedin are my favorite places. Can you find them on the map? To travel to the South Island, my family likes to take a slow trip on a ferry or boat, but sometimes we go by airplane. The Southern Island also has the amazing Southern Alps. The Alps have 18 peaks, which are over 3000 meters above sea level. The name of our country comes from the Dutch “Nieuw Zeeland”, which means "new sea land".We have only about four million people living here, which makes New Zea- land one of the world’s least crowded countries in the world. RUGBY, VOLCANOES AND BARBIES Have you heard of rugby? It’s a sport similar to American football, but rugby players don’t wear helmets. They just wear shorts, t-shirt and shoes! Rugby is not just a sport in New Zealand, but it’s part of the country's identity! When there’s a big game on, all our family and many friends gather at my grandmother’s large house, where we watch the game on the tele and have a barbie where we cook meat over a fire. We eat bangers (sausages), kebabs - which is meat and veges on a skewer - with salad and bread. We hang out around the pool and us kids play ball games outside. It’s lots of fun! Did you know we have some active volcanoes in our country - like Mount Ruapehu in the middle of the North Island. Our.country is part of the Pacific Rim of Fire where many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen. We haven’t had a scary one that I remember, though. I’m very glad of that! One of my fave things to do, is to put on my togs and jandals and head o to the beach for the day! We have so many stunning beaches here! A really cool thing about Kiwi-land is that there’s nothing much here that can kill you! You can set o for a tramp in the bush, happy to know there are no venomous snakes, lethal spiders, or crocodiles. That works for me! 5 NORTH ISLAND SPLENDOR CATHEDRAL COVE Cathedral Cove is on North Island, near a place called Hot Water Beach which was used as the tunnel through which the children first re-enter Narnia in the movie, “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian”. The Māori name Te Whanganui-A-Hei (the Great Bay of Hei) refers to a man named Hei, who supposedly chose the area around Mercury Bay for his tribe to live. He called Motueka Island "Te Kuraetan-ga-o- taku-Ihu" (the outward curve of my nose)! WAI-O-TAPU Hot springs, mud pools and geysers are found in many places across Rotorua. The Wai-O-Tapu hot springs are amazingly colorful. The smell of sulphur is characteristic of volcanic activity. 6 MOUNT COOK Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. It lies in the Southern Alps, the mountain range which runs right across South Island. There was a large rock fall in 1991 that reduced the height of the mountain by about 10m. SOUTH ISLAND SPLENDOR FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER The Franz Josef Glacier is 12 km long and ends near the Tasman Sea. German explorer, Julius von Haast discovered the glacier in 1865 and named it after the Austrian emperor, Franz Josef I. It’s a stunningly beautiful wonder of nature! 7 WHERE IS NEW ZEALAND? New Zealand is part of the region of Oceania. Besides the two main islands, which are connected by the Cook Strait, there are more than 10000 smaller islands in the Pacific Ocean. Check out this cool picture taken from space. Oceania is made up of fourteen countries: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and 11 others plus some smaller territories. THIS IS WHAT NEW ZEALAND LOOKS LIKE FROM SPACE! You’ll probably find that driving anywhere in New Zealand takes twice as long because you are so busy looking at the view - the landscape is so amazing!! New Zealand’s highest point is Mount Cook which is 3,7 m above sea level. The lowest point is the Taieri Plains, which are 2 m below sea-level. The plains are in Otago to the southwest of Dunedin. Can you find Dunedin and Mount Cook on the map on page 11? Did you know that over 90% of the New Zealand land mass is submerged under water? Isn’t that amazing? Kiwis almost faint when the temperature hits 30 degrees Celsius - that’s 86 Farenheit! New Zealand has a mild climate and doesn’t usually get very hot. There is lots of rainfall and often, THE WEATHER you’ll get four seasons in one day! The west coast of South Island is usually extremely cold and wet, especially during the winter season. Christchurch is the driest city in the country. I love going to see the snow and the amazing Franz Josef Glacier on South Island. Wellington, where I live, is the coolest and wettest city - I don’t mind the rain though.