The island of North is characterized by fertile coastal plains rising until volcanic tops dont.bon many these tops are craters (Egmont mounts, Ruapehu). Beside the lakes of crater (lake Taupo) are hot sources, geysers, sulphur springs, fumerolles.

The island of the South, because of the glacial and volcanic phenomena which governed the formation of the New Zealand archipelago, gave him a special character. Sometimes long glaciers there crown the tops of the New Zealand Alps and go down until a very low altitude. Periglacial lakes contrast there with the lakes of tectonic origin of the island of North. The Island of the South is larger, even if only one third of the population saw there.
The population of the Zealand News is made up to 80% from European origin and 9% of stock maorie. Maoris for the majority are located on the Island of North, in the area of East Cape, their cultural and linguistic cradle.
Approximately a half of the population is concentrated in the quatres big cities which are Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
The official languages of the country are the English and Maori. The culture maorie is oldest of Zealand News. It is primarily an oral culture which was collected at the end of the XIXe century by the European intellectuals. The songs or waiata form integral part of the culture maorie.