New Zealand - Glaciers and Subtropical Rainforest

New Zealand is situated in the Southern Hemisphere, in the south-west part of the Pacific and more than 2000km south-east of Australia. This is one of the most distant and isolated countries in the world.

New Zealand is island country – it is compound of two bigger and many smaller islands. It occupies territory of 270 534 sq.km. The capital of New Zealand is Wellington. The biggest city is Auckland. And both are situated on the North Island. The biggest city in the South Island is Christchurch. The large distant of New Zealand from the other part of the world has exerted strong influence to the local economy. New Zealand has to ensure the biggest part of the goods to the local population as the large distant makes the import very expensive.