- In the same year as Cook's first visit, French explorer Jean de Surville conducted the first Christian service in New Zealand waters on Christmas Day.
- The Pacific Islands region is generally divided into three subregions: Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia, with New Zealand being part of Polynesia.
- New Zealand was the first major nation to have universal suffrage. In 1893 it became legal for all male and female citizens of New Zealand to vote.
- New Zealand (or Aotearoa – land of the long white cloud), truly is one of the most picturesque and photogenic places on earth.
- New Zealand, island country in the South Pacific Ocean, the southwesternmost part of Polynesia.
- New Zealand Wiki is a database, forum, and mini-encyclopaedia that anyone can edit, for NZ people, society, events, anything involving New Zealanders.
- Milford Sound is a fjord in the south-west of New Zealand; Milford Sound is best experienced by boat that gives you a wonderful view of the fjord.
- We cannot wait to give you all a warm, New Zealand welcome when the time is right. Here are some of the first things we’d say to you.
- The first European to sight New Zealand was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who charted some of the western coast in 1642, naming it Staten Land.