Fun Facts – 03 September

– Wherever you are in New Zealand, you are never further than 128km from the coast.

– 1/3 of the land area of New Zealand is protected by the Department of Conservation.

– Dunedin’s Baldwin St is the steepest residential street in the world, with a gradient of 38 degrees.

– Nelson’s Blue Lake is the clearest in the world, with 80 metres of visibility.

– We have the highest ratio of animals to humans in the world; 95% animals and 5% humans.

– 100,000 people bungee jump in New Zealand every year.

– Kiwi fruit is actually native to China.

– New Zealand has more golf courses per capita than anywhere else in the world.

– Bats are our only native land based mammal.

– New Zealand has more Scottish pipe bands per capita than Scotland!

Courtesy of Cheap Flights NZ