• The month of July is the coldest
• The warmest month is in January
• Seasons opposite from those on the northern hemisphere
• Average temperatures are around 15C (60F) in the upper North Island
• 10C (50F) near the bottom of the South Island
• Climate fairly mild
• Doesn’t tend to have temperatures over 35C (100F) or under -10C (14F).
• Snows only in the mountains in North Island
• Mainly it snows in the Southern Alps in the South Island
• Rarely it snows in the East Coast at the South Island
• Sunniest place in New Zealand is Nelson and Blenheim (near the top of the South Island)
• Wellington in 1997 was much sunnier than it is normally
• Auckland is known for being a little greyer but this time it was sunnier
• Christchurch was sunnier than Auckland
• Dunedin was the one who got the very least sunshine of all
• Summer is in December till February
• Autumn is in March till May
• Winter is in June till August
• Spring is in September till November
• The clothes you take depends on the season

• Main language spoken is currently English
• Before it was Maori
• Maori language has consists of five vowel sounds: a e i o u ('a' as in 'car', 'e' as in 'egg', 'i' like the 'ee' in 'tee', 'u' like an 'o' in 'to').
• It has 8 consonants in Maori similar to those in English - 'h', 'k', 'm', 'n', 'p', 'r', 't', and 'w'.
• Also two different consonants - 'wh' and 'ng'.

• Have different gods for everything belief they have
• The god of the water Taniwha is believed that lives in the swamp and lakes at different points of each season
• The Maori people arrived to New Zealand in canoes
• New Zealand culture include traditional arts such as carving, weaving, kapa haka (group performance), whaikorero (oratory) and moko (tattoo)
• This traditional arts are practiced throuoght the country
• Maori people practice still the techniques used 100 years ago
• Maori culture also includes art, film, television, poetry, theatre, and hip-hop.
• There is also oral culture based in legends and stories
• Stories and legends are based on the gods that existed long ago and about the world being formed

• Maori people didn’t use money in the Western sense before the first Europeans arrived
• Instead of using money they traded things
• Coins began to circulate among the growing community settler
• Most of the coins were British
• Colony grew after 1840
• The new currency was introduced in 1967 to replace the New Zealand pound when the country decimalized its

       currency.

• Now currency is often called Kiwi
• Prominent Figures
• Governor General: Anand Satyanand
• Prime Minister: Helen Clark
• Deputy Prime Minister: Michael Cullen
• Attorney General: Margaret Wilson
• Governor, Reserve Bank: Alan Bollard
• Ambassador to the US: William P. Mccormick
• This people are reperented in the New Zealnd bills and coins.