Interesting Facts About New Zealand Part 3
Let's get all the numbers out of the way because one thing that I want to definitely touch on right now is the people known as the Maori these guys are awesome now for a New Zealand they have approximately three official languages with the Maori language being the second official language being spoken by three point seven percent of the population and overall the entire population of the Maori make up about fourteen point nine percent of the population being the second largest ethnic group in all of New Zealand now who are the Maori people well they're the indigenous people that lived in New Zealand before us white guys came over and well took everything because that's what we do now as for the Maori people it is believed that they inhabited the region when coming over in canoes from Eastern Polynesia in 1250 to 300 AD and it's really nuts guys.
I
mean like I just wanted to touch on these guys because you know the Maori
people they got such an amazing endive like they even have a warrior culture to
them which is really fantastic and I just I feel like that could just be done in
another video so because it's just it's so impressive but they are awesome and
one thing that New Zealand is huge on is preservation as the people of New Zealand
are known to be big outdoors people and actually keep an eye on their environment
very closely.
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for this reason that New Zealand actually has a three UNESCO World Heritage
Sites and these World Heritage Sites are the sub Atlantic islands the Tongo REO
National Park and tiwa he pony moose Southwest New Zealand and guys if I
mispronounced any of those I'm not gonna lie that's the first time I've ever
took a whack at those things and I tried to fun some pronunciation things
online and that was not easy which actually by the way Tiwa he pony mu is
considered the land of the greenstone in maori and this particular location
stretches over two million six hundred thousand hectares and within this
particular region it actually has four national parks it's nuts and these national
parks are Mount Cook mount aspiring Westland National Park and floored land
National Park as well and as for fiordland national park it's one of the
biggest ones in all of New Zealand and as a matter of fact this one was
originally inscribed as UNESCO zone until 1986 until 1990 when they all merged
together creating one big giant location of course it's a very touristy place
being the most popular national park for its international tourists with over
half a million people visiting this place a year also side note the movie alien
covenant actually shot some scenes at this park as well and considering we even
mentioned Mount Cook we should also mention the fact that Mount Cook is the tallest
mountain in all of New Zealand coming in at a height of twelve thousand two
hundred and eighteen feet tall and as well if we're going to talk about mountains
we should also talk about volcanoes because whoa New Zealand has a lot of them
either currently active dormant or extinct or ancient above-ground or
underwater
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