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Report: New Zealand

The density of population is about 16.1/km2. New Zealand's area is a bit smaller than Italy's or Japan's but bigger than England's. The biggest of New Zealand's islands is South Island. On the South Island there are 18 mountains that are higher than 3000m. The highest mountain is Cook mountain - it's 3754m high. North Island isn't as mountainous as South Island but it's volcanic. The highest mountain there is Ruapehu mountain - it's 2797m high and currently active. The landscape of New Zealand is very popular with making movies and TV- shows - for example the trilogy of "Lord of the Rings" and "The Last Samurai" are filmed there. The climate is temperate all over the country. The temperature rarely goes under 0°C or over 30° in populated areas. The weather on the west coast is moist and cool. In the Mackenzie hollow it turns drier and on the North-Auckland peninsula the climatic zone is almost tropical