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I'm a kiwi who has lived in North America for over a decade. It's astounding to me how many people I've met have no idea where New Zealand is or believe it is n
by knz 8y ago
I'm a kiwi who has lived in North America for over a decade. It's astounding to me how many people I've met have no idea where New Zealand is or believe it is near Scandinavia or Iceland - I'm not sure that issue is due to NZ missing from a map occasionally though! Likewise with the number of people who believe New Zealand is really part of Australia.
- wired8 8y agoNothing to see there anyway... full of sheep, hobbits and the odd moose some say.
- berti 8y agoSadly I don't think many got the moose reference [1][2]. :( [1] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103196185/new-zealands-moose-hunt-a-centurylong-quest-for-a-forests-final-secret https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103196185/new-zealands-moos... [2] https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104071821/there-are-signs-moose-still-live-in-nzs-wilderness https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104071821/there-are-signs-m...
- lainga 8y agoWell, logically, it would be in the North Sea off Old Zeeland.
- jriot 8y agoIts readily taught in the US that NZ is apart of the Australian continent and not Zealandia. We are taught 7 continents thus NZ is closest to Australia so we go with that, no need for specifics...
- tcheard 8y agoI'm a kiwi, who lived in the US from the age of 8 to 13 (1998 - 2003). I remember getting into a massive argument with an Elementary school teacher who tried to tell me I was wrong when I told her that my country was not in fact part of the country of Australia (not just continent, but she was adamant it was part of the Australian country).
- batiudrami 8y agoBad news mate, much like we claim anyone famous from NZ, we also claim the entire land mass: Australian constitution, premable [corrected]: "The States shall mean such of the colonies of New South Wales, New Zealand, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, and South Australia, including the northern territory of South Australia [...] and each of such parts of the Commonwealth shall be called a State."
- xupybd 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_6_of_the_Constitution_of_Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_6_of_the_Constitution_...
- femto 8y agoApparently those words mean NZ is "pre-approved" to join the Commonwealth of Australia and she can unilaterally join at a time of her choosing [1]. If true, it would make for an interesting scenario if acted upon. [1] http://www.diskiller.net/nzstatehood/ http://www.diskiller.net/nzstatehood/ --- The words are actually in section 6 (definitions) of the preamble, not section 6 in the main body of the constitution.
- batiudrami 8y agoHah, yeah I wasn't really suggesting it. Just one of those quirks. I am no lawyer but I suspect we couldn't write up some paperwork to claim a country without them agreeing to it anyway.
- rectang 8y agoGoing through a world map game a few times helped this American to make fewer such mistakes: https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3069 https://online.seterra.com/en/vgp/3069 https://lizardpoint.com/geography/world-countries-quiz.php https://lizardpoint.com/geography/world-countries-quiz.php
- jpatokal 8y agoBut it is a part of Australia, at least as far as the Australian Constitution is concerned -- check out section 6: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practice_n_procedures/Constitution/preamble https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Senate/Powers_practi...
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoSome seriously convoluted run on sentences in there.