New Zealand

New Zealand
Government
Capital	Wellington
Monarch	King Charles III
Head of State	King Charles III
Head of Government	Prime Minister Christopher Luxon
Geography
Largest city	Auckland
Cultural
Demonym	New Zealander Kiwi
Official languages	English Māori
Driving side	left

New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, and its most populous city is Auckland.

Popular Culture

Appearances

Variants

The following list is of explicit appearances of New Zealand.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1981	New Zealand	Race for the Yankee Zephyr	Helicopter pilots and hunters Barney Whittaker (Ken Wahl) and Gilbert "Gibbie" Gibson (Donald Pleasence) uncover a crashed plane filled with gold in the New Zealand wilderness, but need to find it before the treacherous Theo Brown (George Peppard) does.
1983	New Zealand	Utu	In 1870, a Māori warrior (Anzac Wallace) working with the British finds his village massacred, and vows revenge.
1987	New Zealand	Bad Taste	The population of the town of Kaihoro is decimated by extraterrestrial beings, seeking humans as a food source.
1994	New Zealand	Once Were Warriors	A family descended from Māori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
2007	New Zealand	Black Sheep	An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into bloodthirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.

Links

• New Zealand on Wikipedia
• New Zealand on Encyclopædia Britannica
• New Zealand on TV Tropes