New Zealand Geography Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which sheltered Northland bay, dotted with about 140 islands, contains the Waitangi Treaty Grounds and the historic town of Russell, briefly the country's first capital?

Question 2

Which is New Zealand's third-largest island, lying across Foveaux Strait from the South Island, with about 85 per cent of its area protected as Rakiura National Park?

Question 3

Which island in the Hauraki Gulf, a 40-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland, has become known for its many boutique vineyards and its role as a commuter and holiday retreat?

Question 4

Apart from marine mammals such as seals, which are the only land mammals native to New Zealand, having reached it under their own power before humans arrived?

Question 5

Which cluster of large, almost perfectly spherical stone balls, some over two metres across, lies scattered along a beach on the Otago coast?

Question 6

Which stretch of water, about 22 kilometres wide at its narrowest and often very rough, separates New Zealand's North and South Islands?

Question 7

Auckland is built on a narrow isthmus between which two harbours, one opening to the Tasman Sea and the other to the Pacific?

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About New Zealand Geography

How well do you know the geography of New Zealand -- the two main islands and the outliers, the Southern Alps and the volcanoes, the rivers and lakes and fiords, the climate, the wildlife and the way the land is used? This quiz has ninety questions in four packs, written the way people search: which island is bigger, what is the highest mountain, why are the Mackenzie lakes so blue, which river became a legal person, how many sheep are there.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the figures, the location and the background.

The first pack covers the layout of the country: the North and South Islands, Wellington, Auckland, Christchurch and the other cities, Cook Strait, the sixteen regions, the Chatham and subantarctic islands, Cape Reinga and Bluff, and the submerged continent of Zealandia. The second pack is landforms: the Southern Alps and Aoraki / Mount Cook, the Alpine Fault, the Taupo Volcanic Zone, Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe, Taranaki and White Island, the glaciers, Fiordland, the Canterbury Plains and its braided rivers, and features from the Moeraki Boulders to the Waitomo Caves. The third pack is water: the Waikato and the Clutha, the Whanganui River's legal personhood, the deepest and largest lakes, the colour of the Mackenzie lakes, the Manapouri power scheme, Ninety Mile Beach, the Bay of Islands, Farewell Spit and the Marlborough Sounds. The fourth pack covers climate, life and land use: New Zealand's split from Gondwana, its lack of native land mammals, the tuatara and the kauri, the possum and Predator Free 2050, the shift from sheep to dairy, kiwifruit and wine, the conservation estate and the national parks, the wettest and driest places, the dark skies of the Mackenzie, and the country's biggest earthquakes.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph of a place or feature tied to the question, chosen so it does not give the answer away. Every fact has been checked.