Back in 1979, New Zealand cartoonist and satirist Tom Scott, writing in NZ Listener magazine, had this to say about New Zealand: Terrible tragedy in the South Seas. Three million people trapped alive. The big news in 2003 was that we hit the four million population mark, and more than half of that …
The Realm of New Zealand is made up of the North and South islands, separated by the narrow Cook Strait, and many smaller islands, including Stewart Island to the south of South Island.