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Pronunciation of "New Zealand"

I feel that the phonetic rendition of the pronunciation of "New Zealand" is incorrect. Although this pronunciation is common among non-New Zealanders, particularly Americans and British people, I believe that the New Zelander pronunciation is more along the lines of "/nju: 'zɛlənd/". Please correct me if I'm wrong! -Jordan 11:37, 6 November 2014 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.126.197.68 (talk)

I added an audio file that's supposed to be authentic. Do you agree to it? (If you ever read this posting ...) --GeoTrinity (talk) 19:33, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The new audio file sounds good to me, as someone who has lived in NZ most of my life.-gadfium 20:32, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I'm very happy to hear that! We produced the file in Hamburg, Germany, today. Cheers to NZ! --GeoTrinity (talk) 23:27, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well done.Moriori (talk) 00:10, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 14 October 2014 - Please add Geology of New Zealand

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Geology of New Zealand

New Zealand is a section of Zealandia, a much larger submerged continental landmass. Zealandia extends a significant distance east into the Pacific Ocean and south towards Antarctica. It also extends towards Australia in the north-west. This submerged continent is dotted with topographic highs that sometimes form islands. Some of these, such as the main islands (North and South), Stewart Island, and the Chatham Islands, are settled. Other smaller islands are eco-sanctuaries with carefully controlled access. The submerged landmass of Zealandia

The New Zealand landmass has been uplifted due to transpressional tectonics between the Australian and Pacific plates (these two plates are grinding together with one riding up and over the other).

To the east of the North Island the Pacific Plate is forced under the Australian Plate. The North Island of New Zealand has widespread back-arc volcanism as a result of this subduction. There are many large volcanoes with relatively frequent eruptions. There are also several very large calderas, with the most obvious forming Lake Taupo. Taupo has a history of incredibly powerful eruptions, with the Oruanui eruption approx. 26,500 years ago ejecting 1170 cubic km of material and causing the downward collapse of several hundred square km to form the lake. The last eruption occurred c.232CE and ejected at least 100 cubic km of material, and has been correlated with red skies seen at the time in China and Rome.

The subduction direction is reversed through the South Island, with the Australian Plate forced under the Pacific Plate. The transition between these two different styles of continental collision occurs through the top of the South Island. This area has significant uplift and many active faults. As you can imagine, large earthquakes are frequent occurrences here. The most powerful in recent history, the M8.3 Wairarapa earthquake, occurred in 1855. This earthquake generated more than 6m of vertical uplift in places, and caused a localised tsunami. Fortunately casualties were low due to the sparse settlement of the region. Recently, the area has been rattled by the M6.5 Seddon earthquake, but this caused little damage and no injuries. New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, is situated bang in the middle of this region.

The subduction of the Australian Plate drives rapid uplift in the centre of the South Island (approx. 10mm per year). This uplift forms the Southern Alps. These roughly divide the island, with a narrow wet strip to the west and wide and dry plains to the east. A significant amount of the movement between the two plates is accommodated by lateral sliding of the Australian Plate north relative to the Pacific Plate. The plate boundary forms the nearly 800km long Alpine Fault. This fault has an estimated rupture reoccurrence interval of ~330 years, and last ruptured in 1717 along 400km of its length. Worryingly, it passes directly under many settlements on the West Coast of the South Island and shaking from a rupture would likely affect many cities and towns throughout the country.

The rapid uplift and high erosion rates within the Southern Alps combine to expose high grade greenschist to amphibolite facies rocks, including the gemstone ‘pounamu’ (jadeite). Geologists visiting the West Coast can easily access high-grade metamorphic rocks and mylonites associated with the Alpine Fault, and in certain places can stand astride the fault trace of an active plate boundary.

To the south of New Zealand the Australian Plate is subducting under the Pacific Plate, and this is beginning to result in back-arc volcanism. The youngest (geologically speaking) volcanism in the South Island occurred in this region, forming the Solander Islands (<2 million years old). This region is dominated by the rugged and relatively untouched Fiordland, an area of flooded glacially carved valleys with little human settlement.

Since the end of 2010, several large (M7, M6.3, M6.4, M6.2) and shallow (all <7km) earthquakes have occurred immediately beneath Christchurch. These have resulted in 185 deaths, widespread destruction of buildings and significant liquefaction. These earthquakes are releasing distributed stress in the Pacific plate from the ongoing collision with the Australian plate to the west and north of the city. The earthquakes have significantly altered the city, forcing the demolition of many commercial and residential buildings.

--history section

There is a non referenced comment, that of European diseases contributing to the end of the Moriori.

" although European diseases also contributed"

During this period, there were also Chinese and some Arabian visitors to the lands so the term would perhaps be better worded in medical terms rather than a 'location'. Most 'European' diseases were global by this stage of human global developments. Food from these lands was also apparently transported and Maori are documentation to have been employed as sailors and bizarre tropical diseases, not generally found in Europe, were also reported on occasion.

Just seems an out of place speculation, rather than statement.

@User:Tearoa koha (unsigned comment above) Regarding Moriori and disease - thie statement is well supported by the very reliable citation given. I cannot work out what you are trying to say in your subsequent sentences - which Chinese and which Arabian visitors and which bizarre tropical diseases? Andrewgprout (talk) 21:19, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Chathams (and indeed the Moriori) had a lot of exposure from other than just 'europeans' who were all more or less transient.


Roving Mariners: Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790–1870

"provided by the Chatham Islands, a group of ten islands located eight hundred kilometers east of New Zealand. In 1870, a population survey was undertaken and it was reported that:

[a]t the present time, the islands are inhabited by as varied and motley an assemblage of people's as can be imagined. There are Morioris, Maoris, Kanakas, Negroes, Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Danes, Germans, English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Yankees, a native of South America, a Manilla native, a Laplander, a Russian Finn, a half-caste native of New Holland, several Maori half-castes and a few whose nationality it is impossible to determine."

The comment in the article would be better stated as being something along the lines of 'introduced diseases' or similar, rather than that of a specific location. Tearoa koha (talk) 23:20, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Ethnic Groups in NZ22:24, 29 February 2016 (UTC)22:24, 29 February 2016 (UTC)~~

It seems that the total % of Ethnic Groups in NZ adds up to 111%??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.191.171.109 (talk) 22:24, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes this is likely many people identify to more than one ethnic group.Andrewgprout (talk) 22:36, 29 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

GINI coefficient in info box

0.33 or 33 ??

While 0.33 is undoubtedly the correct way to write the coefficient and it is what the citation says - if you put 0.33 in the info box the entry gets categorized as "low" if you enter 33 the catagorization changes to "medium". It seems to me that what ever magical wizardly is changing this it is working off percentages rather than the actual coefficient number. what to do here? Andrewgprout (talk) 03:54, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the country infobox template is configured for GINI coefficients expressed as percentages rather than as decimal numbers. It is easy to correct if you have done a bit of coding, as you can see by examining the source code. But as content builders, Wikipedia blocks us from doing this. You will have to contact someone Wikipedia considers responsible to do it for you - perhaps one of the hundreds of admins appointed for life before 2009 when they were school children. --Epipelagic (talk) 07:20, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The sarcasm is palpable. I very much enjoyed reading this. Thank you. Ben Arnold (talk) 02:30, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Semi-protected edit request on 31 March 2016

I think for the religion section(6.4) there should be more religions added such like jewish and sikhism. Speedysingh990 (talk) 03:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We include all religions with a following of 1% of the population or more. There is a more detailed article, Religion in New Zealand, which does include other religions.-gadfium 03:53, 31 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 April 2016

Theorfounder (talk) 02:16, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Spam — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:32, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Economy not dominated by dairy, etc.

I made this change:

New Zealand is a developed country with a market economy that is dominated by the exports of dairy products, meat and wine, along with tourism.

The imports and exports data for the year ending March 2015 have dairy, meat and wine coming to $20.6B. GDP for the same year was $239.5B so these three exports make up 8.6% of GDP. Tourism is harder to determine, but the industry lobby group says that Tourism accounted for 4.9% of GDP for the same year.

The truth is that service industries dominate New Zealand's production, making up 64.7% of GDP, but this is no different from most industrialised economies so it's not particularly notable. Exports and international tourism get played up in the New Zealand media, but New Zealand's economy is predominantly internal. Ben Arnold (talk) 02:23, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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