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HMS Maori (L-24/F-24/G-24) was a Tribal-class destroyer laid down by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited, at Govan in Scotland on 6 June 1936, launched on 2 ...

New Zealand is an island country located in the south-western Pacific Ocean. It is made up of 2 larger islands and several small ones. Its closest neighbors to the north ...

Lake Ruataniwha is located in the Mackenzie Basin in New Zealand's South Island. An artificial lake, it was formed as part of the Waitaki hydroelectric project. The name is ...

Taro is a tropical root vegetable. It has been called "the potato of the tropics". Its underground stem, called a "corm", is starchy, while its leaves can be cooked and ...

Blueskin Bay is an estuary in coastal Otago, about 25km north of Dunedin. The name also unofficially describes the rural district which includes the northern slopes of Mount Cargill, the ...

Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand, a small island country in the south Pacific Ocean. Like the rest of New Zealand, it was originally inhabited by native tribes ...

The Buller River is in the South Island of New Zealand.Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1966) One of the country's longest rivers, it flows for 170 kilometres from Lake ...

The Sea Shepherd anti-whaling group's high-tech boat, the Ady Gil, was rammed by a Japanese whaling ship, the Shonan Maru No. 2, in early January 2010. Sea Shepherd is ...