New ZEALAND Flashcards
Aoraki / Mt Cook IS:
The southern alps are:
Lake Taupo:
Napier region:
Tongariro National Park:
+ The highest NZ Mountain.
+ 5 million years old
+ NZ biggest lake, 18 thousand years ago was the most récent super éruption.
+ Nz worst earthquake 256Deaths.
+ 3 active cones and craters
Kaikoura Earthquake:
All the places have tectokic plate-origin in common :0
+2016
Tectonic plate theory holds that the inside of the Earth is made of hot liquid-like magma. Towards the surface of the Earth, where it’s not as hot, the crust is made of 100-200km-thick ‘plates’ of rock that float on the liquid magma underneath.
Volcanoes break through weakened places in
techotnic plates.
New Zealand is situated on:
NZ has around 150 big earthquakes each year
Wellington 214 thousand ppp
8 active volcanos in the last 300 years
Thanks to the tectonic plates we have the Waikato River.
The pacific ring of fire.
Last century: under five deaths per year
Nz’s ethnic groups:
Pakeha NZ European
Māori
Asian
62%
18%
17%
God defend NZ
_Aotearora
Translated into Māori in 1878
_1940 became nZ national Anthem
1954 Jetski engines invented by NZ Bill Hamilton
The fox Joseph glacier caused the Fiordlands
Māori legend arrived:
Māori settled in
In the Pascua Island 1400 people were kidnapped in :
The Kaimanawa wall may be the proof that:
At first Māori people had only clothes in their backs.
Over 25 generations, 8 cultural changes
7 canoës. Probably 12/24 waka boats
Māoris settled in 1250 / 1275 after C
-1862
Māori people arrived 2000 years ago
The Māori connection with nature was explained by :
Each canoe had a chief
Intertribal wars in 1810 until 1858
Te awekoku
P1: the government of Nez Zealand has full power to govern and legislate
P2 Māori have rights and the treaty of waitangi still matters unless it differs from the rights that everyone has. 1975
The Māori and the British began in:
P3= equal rights
1769
1838 Jean Francois de Rochefort
Seal hunting period 1810 - 1821
1814 Anglican missionaries teach Māori to write
James busby, first legal Nz resident who signed the 1836 declaration of indépendance
Whalers 1911 - 1964
The New Zealand company would sell land to British people
Māori Reasons for Signing
- In 1840, Māori (80,000-100,000) far outnumbered the new settlers (500-1,000) despite already 20,000 Māori deaths from fighting and diseases.
- The British Governor and missionaries said a treaty would stop tribal fighting, stop plundering, control unruly seal hunters, whalers and escaped convicts and control land sales to Wakefield’s new settlers.
- The Māori liked the Anglican Missionaries and learning to write 4. A Treaty guaranteed Māori ‘sovereignty’ over their land.
English Reasons for Signing
- The French King, Louis-Philippe Ier, was a big threat.
- England had some respect for those colonised (Colonisation Mode II).
- In James Busby’s Declaration of Independence, NZ had already been acknowledged as being inhabited (unlike Australia - terra nullius)
Still in “Colonial Mode” under William IV (1830-1837)
British intellectuals and humanitarians were pressuring the crown to have some consideration for “the savages”.
Signing Day - the Treaty of Waitangi
06 February 1840
New Zealand wars, 2000 Māori people dead
1845 1872 against the colonial government
What was the reason why the Māori people chose their first King in 1858?
- 40 years after signing the Treaty of Waitangi, Parihaka village (1881) became a symbol of…
To unite the Māori tribes to fight the English.
peaceful Māori resistance against the English
Four Wake-Up Calls
- 1972 - Revival of Māori Culture and official status for Māori language
- 1975 - the Māori Land March
- 1977-1978 - Bastion Point Māori Land Protest
- 1981 - Waking up to “apartheid in NZ” during the all-white Springbok Rugby Tour
The first big settlement came in 1985.
Mahuta and his iwi received land, $170m in cash and an apology from Queen Elizabeth II for a military invasion of their land in the 1850s.
The Whanganui River is a legal person.
National VS Labour
The NZ System is called MMP
NZ has a unicameral political system.
Mixed Member Proportional Representation)
It was first tried in 1996.
Non-compulsory, single-round parliamentary elections (and referendums) are held every three (3) years. 7 Maorí electorales
Auckland – 1.7m Wellington – 428,000 Christchurch – 392,000
86% of NZ is almost uninhabited.
Three main reasons why 3⁄4 of NZers live in the North Island:
1. Employment
2. Temperature
3. The Southern Alps
