NewZealand新西兰英文简介.ppt

New Zealand Formal Name: New Zealand Local Name: Aotearoa Location: Oceania Capital?City: Wellington Main?Cities: Auckland, Christchurch, Hamilton Population: 3,825,000 Area: 270,990 km2 Currency: NZ $ = 100 cents Languages: English, Maori Religions: Protestant, Catholic National Anthem God of Nations at Thy feet,In the bonds of love we meet,Hear our voices, we entreat,God defend our free land.Guard Pacifics triple starFrom the shafts of strife and war,Make her praises heard afar,God defend New Zealand. Basic Facts New Zealand is a country in the?south-western Pacific Ocean?comprising two large islands and numerous smaller islands. The only country in the world in which all the highest offices on the land have been occupied simultaneously by women, is New Zealand. New Zealanders rank the?highest in the world for car-ownership, there are 2.5 m cars are for 4 m people. New Zealand is one of the?top five dairy exporters in the world. Sheep rearing isthe back bone of the New Zealand economy. The human population 4 million, but the sheep population of almost 40 million! Landscapes Landscapes Cityscapes Cityscapes Maori New Zealand, or Aotearoa (Land of the Long White Cloud), was first settled by Maori between 950 and 1130 AD. Highly sophisticated ocean navigators, Maori journeyed south through the Pacific from their original homeland, Hawaiiki, believed to be near Tahiti. Maori, the tangata whenua (people of the land) were the only inhabitants of New Zealand for over 600 years, until the arrival of European explorers in the mid 1600s.? Nieuw Zeeland In 1642 the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman “discovered” Aotearoa. He named his discovery Nieuw Zeeland (after a province in Holland). In 1769, Captain James Cook was the first European to extensively map and explore New Zealand, making?two scientific expeditions to the islands and claiming them for Britain. From the 1790s onwards, European settlement mainly consisted of whalers, traders and missionaries, who li