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North Island... or South Island?
Is the answer to these New Zealand clues the North, or South, Island?
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Last updated: February 18, 2019
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| First submitted | February 18, 2019 |
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1. Is larger
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South Island
2. Is more populous
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3. NZ's hottest ever temperature, 42° C, recorded on 7 February 1973
In Rangiora, North Canterbury
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4. NZ's coldest ever temperature, -26° C, recorded on 18 July 1903
In Ranfurly, Central Otago
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5. The Treaty of Waitangi signed here on 6 February 1840
It was then taken around both islands to collect more chiefs' signatures
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6. The first commercial bungy jump operation operates here
Off a disused road bridge over Kawarau River near Queenstown
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7. Captain James Cook's 1769 expedition makes landfall here, becoming the first European visitors to New Zealand
At Gisborne
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8. Mt Ngauruhoe, (Mt Doom in the Lord of the Rings movies), is here
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9. New Zealand's largest lake, Lake Taupo, is here
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10. The highest peak, Aoraki / Mt Cook, is here
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11. The Interislander ferry departs from Picton on this island
... sailing to Wellington in the North
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12. Was known as Middle Island until 1907
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13. Its other official name is Te Waipounamu, meaning Waters of Greenstone
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14. First public railway is built in 1863
From Christchurch to Ferrymead
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15. Location of all three of New Zealand's capital cities
Okiato (Bay of Islands), then Auckland, then, from 1865, Wellington
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