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Canterbury è la regione più estesa della Nuova Zelanda, è costituita dalle pianure di Canterbury e dalle montagne circostanti. A nord è delimitata dal fiume Conway e a ovest dalle Alpi meridionali, il confine meridionale è costituito dal fiume Waitaki.
- Nuova Zelanda
La Nuova Zelanda (in inglese New Zealand; in māori Aotearoa)...
- Università di Canterbury
L'Università di Canterbury (in lingua māori: Te Whare...
- Nuova Zelanda
La Nuova Zelanda (in inglese New Zealand; in māori Aotearoa) è uno stato insulare dell'Oceania, posto nell'Oceano Pacifico meridionale, formato da due isole principali, l'Isola del Nord e l'Isola del Sud, e da numerose isole minori come l'Isola Stewart e le Isole Chatham.
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Natural history
The land, water, flora, and fauna of Canterbury has a long history, stretching from creation of the greywacke basement rocks that make up the Southern Alpsto the arrival of the first humans. This history is linked to the solidification and development of tectonic plates, the development of oceans and then life itself. The region is a part of the larger Zealandiacontinent, itself a part of the larger Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. In the first instance, the land is based upon the cons...
Before European settlement
Canterbury has been populated by a succession of Māori peoples over the centuries. When European settlers arrived, it was occupied by Ngāi Tahu, whose numbers had been greatly reduced by warfare, among themselves and with Te Rauparaha and his Ngāti Toafrom the North Island, in the early 19th century.
Colonisation
In 1848, Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a Briton, and John Robert Godley, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, founded the Canterbury Association to establish an Anglican colony in the South Island. The colony was based upon theories developed by Wakefield while in prison for eloping with a woman not-of-age. Due to ties to the University of Oxford, the Canterbury Association succeeded in raising sufficient funds and recruiting middle-class and upper-class settlers. In April 1850, a preliminary group led by G...
The area administered by the Canterbury Regional Council consists of all the river catchments on the east coast of the South Island from that of the Waiau Toa / Clarence River, north of Kaikōura, to that of the Waitaki River, in South Canterbury. It is New Zealand's largest region by area, with an area of 45,346 km2. Canterbury was traditionally bo...
Canterbury Region covers 44,503.60 km2 (17,182.94 sq mi). Statistics New Zealand estimates the population of Canterbury is 666,300 as of June 2023, which gives a population density of 15.0 people per km2. The region is home to 12.8% of New Zealand's population. Canterbury had a population of 651,027 in the 2023 New Zealand census, an increase of 51...
The gross domestic product(GDP) of the Canterbury region was estimated at NZ$44.2 billion in the year to March 2022, representing 12.4% of New Zealand's national GDP. The regional GDP per filled job was $126,733, 4.6% below the national average of $132,815. For the year ended March 2022, the manufacturing industry was the largest contributor to the...
Like much of the Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands the Canterbury Plains have been highly modified since human settlement and now support a large agricultural industry. Prior to the arrival of Māori settlers in the 13th century, much of the modern Canterbury region was covered in scrub and beech forests. Forest fires destroyed much of the origina...
Local government
The Canterbury region is administered by the Canterbury Regional Council. The area includes ten territorial authorities, including Christchurch City Council and part of the Waitaki District, the other part of which is in Otago. Following the local government reform of 1989, Kaikōura District was part of the Nelson-Marlborough Region. That region was later abolished and replaced with three unitary authorities. Kaikōura was too small to function as an independent unitary authority and was moved...
National government
The Canterbury Region is covered by ten general electorates and one Māori electorate. The city of Christchurch as a whole consists of five of these electorates, while the electorate of Waimakariri contains a mix of Christchurch and exurban Canterbury. The Banks Peninsula, Ilam, and Waimakariri electorates are currently held by members of the governing National Party (as part of the coalition-led Sixth National Government of New Zealand) Vanessa Weenink, Hamish Campbell, and Matt Doocey. Meanw...
State Highway 1 runs the length of Canterbury, connecting north to Blenheim and the Cook Strait ferry terminal at Picton and south to Oamaru, Dunedin and Invercargill. Christchurch International Airport, located in Harewood on the northwest outskirts of Christchurch, is the region's main airport. Regular flights operate from Christchurch to most ma...
Canterbury is served by 292 primary and secondary schools, educating around 94,000 students from ages 5 to 18. Around 13 percent of students attend state-integrated schools and 5 percent attend private schools, with the remaining 82 percent attending state schools.Christchurch and Timaru have single-sex state secondary schools. Canterbury has two u...
Sport in Canterbury has developed from the time of the initial settlement by British migrants, and remains an important part of community life. Cricket and rugby union have been popular team sports since the early years of settlement, with the first cricket club established in Christchurch in 1851, and the first rugby club in 1863. Interest in orga...
Canterbury was the location used in the filming The Lord of the Rings for the fictional city of Edoras, Rohan, on Mount Sunday, as well as Helm's deep backdrop, several miles down the valley.
L'Università di Canterbury (in lingua māori: Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha) è un'università neozelandese su base pubblica, situata a Christchurch. In precedenza aveva il nome di Canterbury College ed era parte dell'Università della Nuova Zelanda.
Canterbury è una regione della Nuova Zelanda. Si trova lungo la costa orientale dell'Isola del Sud, sull'oceano Pacifico.
Cosa vedere a Canterbury: La guida alla visita di Canterbury e delle sue attrazioni. Dove si trova, i dintorni, come arrivare, clima e meteo. La più estesa regione della Nuova Zelanda è quella di Canterbury, affacciata su di un lungo tratto di costa sud-orientale della South Island (Isola del Sud).
Divisione amministrativa della Nuova Zelanda (45.845 km 2 con 526.400 ab. nel 2005), situata nella parte orientale dell’Isola del Sud. Include il tratto mediano delle Alpi Neozelandesi, che digrada con una fascia di alture boscose verso la pianura costiera alluvionale.
