NEW ZEALAND

NATIONAL COSTUME

The national costume of New Zealand is the Māori clothing. Māori garments were used to protect modesty and to show the wearer’s status. Nowadays traditional clothes are wearing in official ceremonies.

DANCE AND MUSIC

LOCATION AND HISTORY

The typical dance in New Zealand is the Haka and the music are the words of a haka that often describe ancestors and events in the tribe's history accompanied with some instruments and body percussion.

Location:

• Located at the southeast of the world map, it belongs to the Oceania’s continent.

History:

• Māori were the first to arrive in New Zealand.
• Abel Tasman, was the first European to sight the country.
• In 1840, the Treaty of Waitangi.

SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BUILDINGS

BEEHIVE

GOVERNMENT HOUSE

OLD ST

PAUL’S

TOWN HALL

SKY TOWER

PHYSICAL FEATURES & BIODIVERSITY

Climate: At the north there is a Subtropical climate during summer. In Winter are mild temperatures.

Landforms: Some of the important mountains are Mt.Cook. New Zealand is divided in two parts: The North Island and the South Island.

Flora & Fauna:

POLITICAL SYSTEM

• Parliamentary democracy.
• Constitutional Monarchy.
• Sovereignty
• Commonwealth
• Responsible Government
• John Key

CULTURE & TRADITIONS

• National symbols
• Maori culture
• Official language
• Koru
• Kiwi
• Gastronomy
• Haka
• Greeting

POPULATION

Distribution: The most population is located in the north island and this is beacause the economic an social activities reside there.

Population Piramid: Is a young-ageing population because there are almost the same kind o people

ECONOMIC SECTORS

• Economic insfrastructure
• Agriculture and livestock
• Trade
• Tourism

SPORTS ACTIVITIES

SPORTS IN NEW ZEALAND

Rugby League

• It is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field.

OLYMPIC GAMES

• Our national Rugby League team are the Warriors.
• Simon Mannering is the current captain of the Warriors

Rugby Union

• Played in New Zealand as far back as 1870

• The All Blacks are the national rugby team, and are one the best rugby teams in all of the world.
• Up until 2016, Richie McCaw was the current captain of the All Blacks, and a legend in rugby.

• New Zealand first competed as an independent nation at 1920 Summer Olympics.
• New Zealand athletes have won a total of 118 medals in total and is at number 34 on the all-time Olympic Games medal table.
• The most succesful sports are rowing and athletics with 24 medals each and sailing with 22
• The sole Winter Olympics medal is the silver medal won by Annelise Coberger in alpine skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Netball

• Netball is the most popular women's sport in New Zealand.

• The Silver Ferns are New Zealand's national Netball team, and are one of the leading Netball teams in the world.

Cricket

• Cricket is a popular national summer sport in New Zealand.

PARALYMPIC GAMES

• Cricket is a game played with two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, with a rectangular 22-yard long pitch in the middle.

• Our national Cricket team are the Black Caps.

Soccer

Basketball

• The Paralympic Games are a multi-sport event for athletes with physical and sensorial disabilities.
• The NPC are responsible for preparing and leading Para-Athletes to international competitions and the Paralympic Games.
• They strive to support disabled New Zealanders by inspiring them to become involved in Para-Sport or local disability sport programmes.

• Our national Soccer team are the All Whites.

• Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.

• Nicknamed the "Tall Blacks", the New Zealand Breakers are New Zealand's national Basketball team.

Famous sportsmen: These are a few of the most important people in sport in new zealand:

Michael Campbell

Lydia Ko

Ben sigmund

A. J Hackett

Anecdotes: We think that the most important anecdote is that most of the famous sportmen are golfers because here is the most popular sports, and also in my opinion in the sports of New Zealand is always reflected Maori's traditions.

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NEW ZEALAND

By Álvaro Calvo, Irene Gómez and Gadea Rodríguez