New Zealand is an island country in the south western Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main land masses, the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu, plus numerous smaller islands.

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New Zealand is situated 900 miles east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 600 miles south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga.

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What are the indigenous people of New Zealand called?

They originally came from eastern Polynesia centuries

before the Europeans arrived.

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