– 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!
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