– Baldwin St in Dunedin is the world’s steepest street, with a 19 degree slope!
– The Royal NZ Airforce logo is a Kiwi (ironic, given it is a flightless bird!)
– in 2011, Blue Lake in Nelson was declared to have the clearest water in the world
– Bungee jumping was first done commercially in New Zealand, in 1988
– There are more vending machines in Japan than people in New Zealand
– In 2014, New Zealand was voted the second least corrupt country in the world, after Denmark
– A hill in the Hawkes Bay has the longest name in the world -Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
– No part of the country is more than 128km (79 miles) from the sea.
– Only 5% of NZ’s population is human- the rest are animals.
– There are no land snakes, native or introduced, in NZ.
Courtesy of Buzzfeed.com
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