- The world’s first commercial bungee jump was a 43-metre leap off the Kawarau Bridge in Queenstown in 1988.
- New Zealanders love their cars! 2.5 million cars for 4 million people (including the kids) makes New Zealand’s car ownership rate one of the highest in the world.
- Although it is around the size of Japan, New Zealand’s population is just over four million, making it one of the world’s least populated countries.
- In 1893, New Zealand became the first country to give women the right to vote.
- Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest in 1953, was a New Zealander.
- Baron Ernest Rutherford, the first person in the world to split the atom in 1919, was also a New Zealander.
- It’s no wonder New Zealanders have always been ahead with regards to things like inventions and politics….
- New Zealand is after all the very first country to greet each new day!
- While Rugby remains the most popular spectator sport in New Zealand, golf is the most popular participation sport, with more golf courses in New Zealand per capita of population, than any other country in the world.